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jamsnounpl. of jam 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 backups, bottlenecks, jam-ups, logjams, snarls, tailbacks(British), tie-ups tanglesgridlocks, lockscongestions, trafficcrawls, delays, slowdowns, stoppages 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 binds, boxes, catch-22's(or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish to fit (people or things) into a tight spacejammed his clothes into the already bulging hamper crams, crowds, crushes, rams, sandwiches, shoehorns, squeezes, stuffs, wedges fills, heaps, jam-packs, loads, packs to prevent passage through by filling with somethingfirefighters found the nightclub's doorways jammed with trapped patrons blocks, chokes, clogs, clots, congests, dams, gums (up), obstructs, occludes, plugs (up), stops (up), stuffs bungs, corks, spiles, stoppers, stopplesfills, gridlocks, packsfurs, siltsfloods, gluts, inundates, overwhelms, swamps clears, frees, opens (up), unblocks, unclogs, unplugs, unstops excavates, hollows (out), scoops (out)empties, lightens 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 brims, charges, crams, fills, heaps, jam-packs, loads, packs, stuffs drenches, floods, gluts, swampsbloats, bulkscrowds, crushes, mats, presses, rams, shoves, squashes, squeezesrefills, refreshes, reloads, repacks, replenishesovercharges, overfills, overflows, saturateshoneycombs, penetrates clears, empties, evacuates, vacates, voids lightensdepletes, drains, eliminates, exhaustsbleeds, draws (off)cleans, flushes, purges, scours, sweeps to force one's wayseveral more people jammed into the bus even though there was hardly room to stand bores, bulldozes, bulls, crashes, elbows, jostles, muscles, presses, pushes, shoulders, squeezes rams, shoves, thrusts |