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1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Information.Examples: "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."CommonwealthIrelandUKinformaluncountable

2. (birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.Examples: "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."uncountable

3. (fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.Synonyms: genficslanguncountable

1. (slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).Synonyms: gennyslang

1. (science fiction) To genetically engineer.Examples: "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."

1. (obsolete, UK, slang) A shilling.Examples: "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.""UKobsoleteslang

1. (informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).Examples: ""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."informal

2. (informal, in combination) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.Examples: "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."in-compoundsinformal