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clams, plural;
  1. Dig for or collect clams
    • - it was one of the worst times for clamming
  2. Abruptly stop talking, either for fear of revealing a secret or from shyness

Noun
  1. A marine bivalve mollusk with shells of equal size

  2. Any of a number of edible bivalve mollusks, e.g., a scallop

  3. A dollar
    • - all I got for the job was 50 lousy clams
  4. A shy or withdrawn person


  1. boodle: informal terms for money
  2. (clam) burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
  3. (clam) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
  4. (clam) dollar: a piece of paper money worth one dollar
  5. (clam) flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
  6. CLaMS (Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere) is a modular chemistry transport model (CTM) system developed at Research Centre Jülich, Germany. CLaMS was first described by McKenna et al. (2000a,b) and was expanded into three dimensions by Konopka et al. (2004). ...
  7. SpongeBob SquarePants is an animated television series broadcast on Nickelodeon, an American cable network. The series premiered on May 1, 1999 and is currently in its seventh and eighth seasons.
  8. The word "clam" can be applied to freshwater mussels, and other freshwater bivalves, as well as marine bivalves.
  9. (Clam (Camp Lazlo)) The following is a list of characters which appear in the Cartoon Network animated television series Camp Lazlo.
  10. (clam) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. ...
  11. (clam) n. A mistake (someone who is making a lot of mistakes is said to be eating clam chowder)
  12. (CLAM) coin line activity monitoring
  13. (CLAM) CICS Look At Myself. A CICS-private transaction that runs periodically to check the consistency of the CICS data structures.
  14. (Clam (Tom Swifty)) "Another plate of steamers all around!" Tom clamoured.
  15. (Clam) (Hamaguri or Aoyagi)
  16. (Clam) Money. You won't need many clams to build a PDRacer. Also a descriptive word for a proprietry type of cleat, sort of a cross between a "cam" and "jam" cleat.
  17. (Clam) and Moth (Bomb ketches) (from Commodore Hornblower by C. S. Forester)
  18. (Clam) is a small albinopygmy rhinoceros who is part of the "Jelly Trio." Although being one of the main characters of the show, he rarely speaks. He has a low voice and usually speaks in short bursts of few words, often repeating the last words that others say. Carlos Alazraqui voiced Clam.
  19. (clam) adv., secretly, on they sky
  20. (clam) common name frequently used to refer to certain freshwater bivalves (i.e., fingernail clams and the Asiatic clam). Differs from a mussel in that anterior and posterior lateral and cardinal teeth are present
  21. To dream of clams, denotes you will have dealings with an obstinate but honest person. To eat them, foretells you will enjoy another's prosperity. For a young woman to dream of eating baked clams with her sweetheart, foretells that she will enjoy his money as well as his confidence.
  22. Class Management System, an electronic roll utilised by TAFE teaching staff to monitor and report the progress of student assessment and attendance.
  23. are giant bivalves with eyes that are found in the seas surrounding the Mushroom Kingdom and Yoshi's Island. They appear as semi-recurring enemies and obstacles throughout the Mario series.
  24. Mistakes while playing music.Charlie is really layin' down some "clams" tonight.
  25. Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling Study