gen

name

1. A Niger-Congo language of Togo.
2. A female given name, a short form of Genevieve.

   “Hal. Oh, don't fuss, Gen. I'll do my part all right. Mamma's 'structed me, you know. Genevieve. Instructed, Hal.”

   ““Gen? Listen, I'm so sorry I did that, Gen. You gotta believe me. I'm not like this and you know it.” “Listen...Kyle, I...I don't think I want to see you anymore.” Genevieve's voice cracked. “Gen!””

noun

1. A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Gen. (“General”).

   “Particularly notable was the presence not just of Nato’s military chief, the American Gen Christopher Cavoli, but also Adm Sir Tony Radakin, Britain’s most senior military officer, who is now acknowledged in Washington and Kyiv as an increasingly important actor in helping Ukraine overcome the Russian invaders.”

3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, uncountable)Information.

   “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.”

4. (uncountable)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.”

5. (slang, uncountable)Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
6. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).
7. (slang)A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
8. (UK, obsolete, slang)A shilling.

   “The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a 'rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.”

   “"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."”

9. (informal)A 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.”

10. (in-compounds, informal)A 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.”

11. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of group exemption number.

adj

1. (not-comparable)general

verb

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.”

   “The Turing factories on Isis's small moon had fallen short of productivity goals, though another two factory units had been genned.”

2. 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.”

adv

1. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable)Clipping of genuinely.