noun
- a large, unwieldy umbrella
Usage: chiefly British; informal; named after Mrs. Gamp, a character in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit
Examples
- She carried an enormous gamp that took up half the sidewalk.
- He fumbled with his gamp as he stepped out of the taxi.
- The old woman's gamp was so large it nearly knocked over a passerby.
- On rainy days, the park was filled with people wielding their gamps.