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jamnoun a crowded mass (as of cars) that impedes or blocks movementthousands of cars trying to leave the stadium's parking lot at the same time are sure to create a jam backup, bottleneck, jam-up, logjam, snarl, tailback(British), tie-up tanglegridlock, lockcongestion, trafficcrawl, delay, slowdown, stoppage a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapethe heavy rain puts us in a real jam: all of the preparations are for a garden wedding bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish jamverbto fit (people or things) into a tight spacejammed his clothes into the already bulging hamper cram, crowd, crush, ram, sandwich, shoehorn, squeeze, stuff, wedge fill, heap, jam-pack, load, pack to prevent passage through by filling with somethingfirefighters found the nightclub's doorways jammed with trapped patrons block, choke, clog, clot, congest, dam, gum (up), obstruct, occlude, plug (up), stop (up), stuff bung, cork, spile, stopper, stopplefill, gridlock, packfur, siltflood, glut, inundate, overwhelm, swamp clear, free, open (up), unblock, unclog, unplug, unstop excavate, hollow (out), scoop (out)empty, lighten to put into (something) as much as can be held or containedthe inn will jam a guest's picnic basket with an array of tempting foods brim, charge, cram, fill, heap, jam-pack, load, pack, stuff drench, flood, glut, swampbloat, bulkcrowd, crush, mat, press, ram, shove, squash, squeezerefill, refresh, reload, repack, replenishovercharge, overfill, overflow, saturatehoneycomb, penetrate clear, empty, evacuate, vacate, void lightendeplete, drain, eliminate, exhaustbleed, draw (off)clean, flush, purge, scour, sweep to force one's wayseveral more people jammed into the bus even though there was hardly room to stand bore, bull, bulldoze, crash, elbow, jostle, muscle, press, push, shoulder, squeeze ram, shove, thrust in 1706 |