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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater" [syn: jammed, jam-packed, packed]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jam Jam, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jamming.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between jambs, or more likely from the same source as champ See Champ.] 1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in. The . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De Foe. 2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door. [Colloq.] 3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see jam

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Hanged. Cant.

Moby Thesaurus

aground, alive with, anchored, arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, bloated, blocked, bonded, bound, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, caught, cemented, chained, chock-full, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, constipated, costive, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded, crowding, delayed, delayed-action, dense, detained, distended, drenched, fast, fastened, filled to overflowing, firm, fixed, foul, fouled, full, glued, gluey, glutted, gorged, grounded, hard, heavy, held, held up, high and dry, hung up, hyperemic, impacted, impenetrable, impermeable, in a bind, in abeyance, in profusion, in spate, inextricable, infarcted, jam-packed, late, latish, lavish, massive, moored, moratory, never on time, nonporous, obstipated, obstructed, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overdue, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plethoric, plugged, plugged up, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, ready to burst, retarded, rife, running over, satiated, saturated, secure, serried, set, slow, soaked, solid, stopped, stopped up, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, taped, tardy, teeming, tethered, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, tied, tight, transfixed, unpunctual, unready, untimely, viscid, viscose, viscous, wedged