Usually means: Close friends considered as family.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. fam: Merriam-Webster
  2. FAM, fam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. FAM: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. FAM, Fam, fam: Wordnik
  5. Fam, fam: Wiktionary
  6. F.A.M: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. FAM: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. fam: Dictionary.com
  9. FAM, Fam (TV series), Fam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Fam: Rhymezone
  11. FAM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  12. FAM: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. FAM, f.a.m: Dictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fam-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fam: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. FAM: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. fam, fam, fam: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. fam: Genealogy Glossary
  4. FAM: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fam, fam, fam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. F.A.M, The FAM: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (FAM)

noun:  (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
noun:  A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
noun:  (informal) Clipping of family. [(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.]
noun:  (colloquial, hospitality industry) Clipping of familiarization. [The act, process or result of familiarizing.]
noun:  (US, law enforcement) Initialism of federal air marshal.

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