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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| GAL | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| get a life | |
gal. abbr.
gallon
| gal.
Abbreviation of gallon |
| GAL get a life |
gal
unit of acceleration, named in honour of the Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and used especially in measurements of gravity. One gal equals a change in rate of motion of one centimetre (0.3937 inch) per second per second.
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