Usually means: Pregnant, expecting a baby soon.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word in the family way:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. in the family way: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. in the family way: Collins English Dictionary
  3. in the family way: Wordnik
  4. in the family way: Wiktionary
  5. In the family way, in the family way: Dictionary.com
  6. in the family way: FreeDictionary.org
  7. In the family way: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. in the family way: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. In the family way: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. In the family way: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. In the family way: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. in the family way: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. in the family way: Urban Dictionary



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