/gam"een, -in, ga meen"/ , n.
1. a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
2. a diminutive or very slender girl, esp. one who is pert, impudent, or playfully mischievous.
adj.
3. of or like a gamine: a gamine personality; clothes for the gamine figure.
[ 1895-1900; ]