Meaning of Jam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kind of frock for children.
   dated
2. A household that is only barely able to meet its financial obligations.
   UK, informal
3. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
   countable, uncommon, uncountable
4. Abbreviation of Jamaica.
   abbreviation, alt-of
5. A difficult situation.
   countable
6. A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
   countable
7. A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
   countable
8. An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
   common, countable
9. A song; a track.
   broadly, countable, informal
10. An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
    broadly, countable
11. That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
    countable, slang
12. A forceful dunk.
    countable
13. A play during which points can be scored.
    countable
14. Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
    countable
15. The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
    Australia, countable, uncountable
16. Luck.
    UK, countable, slang, uncountable
17. Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
    Canada, countable, slang, uncountable
18. Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
    countable, slang, uncountable
19. Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He is allergic to jam.”

“She loves eating jam for breakfast in hotels.”

“It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.”

“She was married when we first met / Soon to be divorced / I helped her out of a jam, I guess / But I used a little too much force”

“Where, where is my common sense? / How did I get in a jam like this?”

“The pitcher's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.”

“a jam on the 101 South, blocking the two right lanes [radio report]”

“a jam of logs in a river”

“According to Boeing, in the history of this elevator design (which exists on all Boeing DC-9/MD-80 series and 717 model airplanes), this accident was the first notification that Boeing had received of an elevator jam occurring on an airplane exposed to ground gusts lower than 65 kts. Boeing noted that the elevator design first entered service in 1965 on the then-Douglas DC-9 airplane.”

“And a mix CD titled "Summer Jamz 2000." Jamz is spelled with a "z".”

“The result is an outstanding assortment of sophisticated, sexy and hip-hop-tinged R&B grooves, ballads and party jams.”

“We came up with some new ideas at the game jam.”

“[…] a day at new Farm Park with an art jam, fursuit games, and a nerf war, ending in the evening at the strike Wintergarden bowling center.”

“Teaching is my jam.”

“Toughie scored four points in that jam.”

“I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.”

“He's got more jam than Waitrose.”

“I don't think he has the jam.”

“’Tis fine to be a pretty girl, or just a gay and witty girl, And obviously to be both is rightly counted jam, But even more desirable, and clearly less acquirable, Is that mysterious quality denominated glam.”

“Well, technically, a Jam is a working-class Brexit voter who feels alienated by the creeping march of globalisation.”

“Although most of the income for JAM families comes from work, it is, in many cases, topped up by welfare support.”

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