Yam

adjective: to look, to feel, or to be good.

"Yo riley you're lookin' yam today"

by Yamtown24 October 2, 2017

Yam

An abbreviation for "Your Mam."

"Yam makes a really good Beef Curry."

"You Stink!"
"Yam Stinks!"

by atticusflynn June 19, 2008

Yam

A man's crop.
Taken from Chinua Achebe's book, "Things Fall Apart."

"Yam, the king of crops, was a man's crop."


Wife: What would you like to go with the pot roast, dear?

Husband: Yams.

Wife: But we had yams just yesterday! Wouldn't some asparagus be nice?

Husband: I want yams. With butter and salt.

Wife: Why are you so hooked on yams?

Husband: Because yams are a MAN'S crop!

by necoyama March 19, 2009

Yam

A Cumbrian - more Western Cumbrian - slang word for home. A very regional dialect that is not really used outside of the county.

1) See you later, mate, I'm gan yam

by OMG2013 May 30, 2013

Yam

Pejorative for people from Wisconsin

Paul Ryan is a yam. Packers fans are yams. - Truck falls through ice- What a damn yam.

by egard September 27, 2017

Yam

The act of fucking(sexual intercourse)

I yamed her and her friend all night!
Im gonna go yam!

by the prodaji June 12, 2008

Yam

verb

1. to take the largest possible shit one can take (especially when drunk) and flood both the bathroom in which it was taken and the neighbour’s bathroom

2. to cause massive drunken property damage, specifically to flood someone’s bathroom

“dude I totally yammed last night”
“be careful with those burritos, you don’t want to yam up the bathroom”

by cornellstudent December 2, 2019