gen
noun
[ dʒɛn ]
• information.
• "you've got more gen on him than we have"
gen
verb
• find out about.
• "we genned up on the agencies that had done the work"
Origin:
Second World War (originally used in the armed services): perhaps from the first syllable of general information .
gen
noun
• short for generation.
• "the next gen of consoles"
-gen
combining form
• denoting a substance that produces something.
• "oxygen"
• denoting a substance or plant that is produced.
• "cultigen"
Origin:
via French -gène from Greek genēs ‘-born, of a specified kind’, from gen- (root of gignomai ‘be born, become’, genos ‘a kind’).
Gen.
abbreviation
• General.
• "Gen. Eisenhower"
• Genesis (in biblical references).
