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  • //d͡ʒɛn//

Information.

noun

  1. 1

    informalInformation.

    Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.

  2. 2

    Information about the location of a bird.

    I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.

  3. 3

    slangFan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

Etymology

Clipping of general.

adjective

  1. 1

    general

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of GenAlternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).

verb

  1. 1

    To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.

    genned with a LLM

    Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.

    The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.

    As the capacities of the large servers are exceeded, a new server is genned into the RAC cluster.

Etymology

Shortened from generate and generator.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).

verb

  1. 1

    To genetically engineer.

    Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

    Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

Etymology

Shortened from genetic engineering

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA shilling.

    "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."

Etymology

Etymology unknown. Possibilities include: * Clipping of argent * Clipping of generalise, from back slang for English shilling.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).

    "Mladenovic playing in what the young gen is calling a crop top, but what my gen is calling a bra," Bouchard tweeted. "Sign of the times that Wimbledon has no issue with that. Still can remember the year some had troubles because of 'too short' skirts lol."

    It’s anyone’s guess whether such attitudes will persist into adulthood, but if Gen Z (and the gens to come) do prove more alco-skeptic than their forbears then the above twelve steps are deftly primed to cash in.

  2. 2

    informalA specific version of something in a chronological sequence.

    For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.

    […] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.

    The Family Values and Framing Strategy steps address soft issues as what is the purpose of the new investment strategy, is there a desire to engage and train the next generation (Next Gens), and is there building buy-in and engagement across the family members important to strengthen family unity.

Etymology

Clipping of generation.

adverb

  1. 1

    Variant of genuinelyClipping of genuinely.

Forms

plural
gens
past tense
genned
past participle
genned
present participle
genning
third person singular
gens
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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