jam
IPA: dʒˈæm
noun
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (Canada, slang) balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (dated) A kind of frock for children.
- (UK, informal) A household that is only barely able to meet its financial obligations.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb [(architecture, interior decorating, carpentry) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.]
verb
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- To render something unable to move.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality.
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Examples of "jam" in Sentences
- Spread the jam over the bananas.
- The traffic jam befuddled the drivers.
- A paper had jammed in the copier machine.
- Thimbleberry and Chokecherry jam is a treat.
- The car was jammed in the middle of the road.
- Nevertheless, the intensity of the jams varies.
- The traffic jam beleaguered all drivers on the road.
- He was late for the class because of the traffic jam.
- The term jam-eating comes from when people worked in the mines.
- The artwork was not the barricade itself but the resulting traffic jam.
- One is the - there's not a sufficient amount of what we call jam sessions.
- Why anyone would wittingly put themselves in a position to be caught up in a massive traffic jam in Puncak
- We'd do what we called jam-but the only guy who could hold his instrument right side up was Peter Van Gelder.
- Since this "jam" is getting a little dated, a number of the pictures posted there have already gone the way of the dodo bird.
- With the term jam band incorporating everything from blues to bluegrass these days, it's an overused handle that barely describes all the disparate bands lumped within its parameters.
- There was no explicit support for radical group Hamas, though a small group of demonstrators made a shout using a pun with the Spanish word jamás ( "never"), whose pronunciation is nearly identical to "Hamas".
- The cause of the "jam" is a prevalence of south winds for a few days, and then a sudden change to the north -- the first forcing the ice down the Upper Lakes into the river, which is prevented by the north-winds from getting into Lake Ontario.
- NOW, to celebrate this release, the SMD boys, some of their musical friends, and our pals at Modular UK are throwing a party TONIGHT in London - SMD will be there along with the Klaxons, Mystery Jets, Good Books, and the Modular and Ten Dead Sloanes DJ crews - the jam is at Sin (144 Charing Cross Road - WC2H 0LB) and costs six pounds in advance or eight with your student union card.