... help-wanted ads for a forecourt attendant, i.e., somebody to man the gas pumps. Also, in Britain and America, a tennis term meaning the area near the net.Foreign Office approx. State DepartmentNow ... well.gamp, n. umbrellaInf. A big one, named after Sarah Gamp, in Martin Chuzzlewit, a bibulous lady who carried a large cotton umbrella. The common slang term in Britain is brolly.G&T, n. abbrev. ... Britain gee-ho!, and gee-wo! are heard, too, and gee-gee was originated by children as a juve-nile colloquialism equivalent to horsie. The gee-gees is used jocularly in the way the Americans...