Definitions for clambakes

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clambakes clam·bake

Spelling: [klam-beyk]

IPA: /ˈklæmˌbeɪk/

Clambakes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 446 anagrams from letters in clambakes (aabceklms).

Definitions for clambakes

noun

1. a picnic or social gathering at the seashore at which clams and other seafood are baked, sometimes with corn and other items, traditionally on hot stones under a covering of seaweed.
2. Informal. any social gathering, especially a very noisy one.

Origin of clambakes

An Americanism dating back to 1825-35; clam¹ + bake

Examples for clambakes

There was to be a grand excursion and clambake at Setuckit Beach and all hands was going—four catboats full.

I remember I wanted very much to dress in white for the clambake, some weeks after that, but you wouldn't allow it.

I'm going to dig clams and catch crabs, and we'll have a clambake on shore, Sue.

Not to know the delights of a clambake, not to love chowder, to be ignorant of lobscouse!

That name was on the stone before I joined you at the clambake.

At eleven o'clock we had the clambake with beer in the kitchen, and Mr. von Inwald came, after all.

There ought to be a public meeting about this, and resolutions, and perhaps a clambake.

"That's one way to keep cool at a clambake," grinned the man in gray.

One of these was an Indian clambake, neatly paved and piled with ashes and unopened clam shells.

"Oh, yes, your dolls can come to the clambake," agreed Bunny.