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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clambake
noun
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▪ And can that be a PolarTec pullover Ormond wears on the beach for their clambake?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clambake

Clambake \Clam"bake\, n. The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clambake

1835, American English, from clam (n.) + bake (n.). By 1937 in jazz slang transferred to "an enjoyable time generally," especially "jam session."

Wiktionary
clambake
  1. (context figurative English) Informal, makeshift, sloppy. n. 1 An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a pit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals. 2 (context slang chiefly West Coast US English) An instance of smoking (usually marijuana) in an enclosed space. v

  2. (context intransitive slang chiefly West Coast US English) To smoke marijuana in an enclosed space such as a car with the windows up.

WordNet
clambake

n. a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed

Wikipedia
Clambake

Clambake is a 1967 American musical film directed by Arthur H. Nadel and starring Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, and Bill Bixby. Written for the screen by Arthur Browne Jr., the film is about the heir to an oil fortune who trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money. Clambake was the last of Presley's four films for United Artists. The movie reached No. 15 on the national weekly box office charts.

Clambake (album)

Clambake is the thirtieth album by Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3893, in October 1967. He entered RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee on February 21, 1967 for Recording sessions for his twenty fifth film. Supplemental material sessions took place on September 10 and 11, 1967. It peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200.

Usage examples of "clambake".

Ridge and I printed invitations for a clambake on our handpress, on the strength of them, but it was a dreadful waste of money.

The beer bottles were twelve-ounce stubbies, the little fat ones you never see anywhere but at clambakes and sandlot ball games.

The rocks were hard, but each of them had experienced clambakes before and would have disdained any more comfortable seat, after all 5 .

All over the island children played Frisbee and baseball, while clambakes steamed under their blankets of seaweed and canvas, and backyard grills sent up clouds of acrid smoke.

Nothing except one of the giant lobsters for the upcoming Annual Clambake.

I came along on this clambake to snap the cord that ties those two locations together.

This time, he acted like he was at the clambake and it was his turn to tell a joke and he had a whopper saved up.

Mother into a clambake because pretty soon the tide will be going out and it would be so fun!

As it happened, most of the Fall River Police Department was out at their annual picnic and clambake at Rocky Point, Rhode Island.

The monorail's interior was steaming clambake hot, as Wade, Ted and Bryan whooshed above a Walt Disney World lake.

He's probably planning a surprise clambake or organizing a happy-wappy balloon-o-gram or something dorky.

We're trying to talk Mother into a clambake because pretty soon the tide will be going out and it would be so fun!

It's been years since I've done a clambake and I could use a little help with these four rambunctious daughters of ours.

I want a look-alike for Borden at the clambake, and two luckless fishermen in a little rowboat right offshore, dead ringers for the saints Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

A beachside condo: two bedrooms, large deck, ocean view, clambakes every night.