JAMMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jammed mean? 

• JAMMED (adjective)
  The adjective JAMMED has 1 sense:

1. extremely crowed or filled to capacity

  Familiarity information: JAMMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAMMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely crowed or filled to capacity

Synonyms:

jam-packed; jammed; packed

Context example:

a packed theater

Similar:

crowded (overfilled or compacted or concentrated)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

The sled was upside down and jammed between a tree-trunk and a huge rock, and they were forced to unharness the dogs in order to straighten out the tangle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“There is no such person here,” she answered, and tried to close the door, but Holmes had jammed it with his foot.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ere we could make it fast it had me jammed against the mast.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In some way, when Harrison was aloft, the sheet jammed in the block through which it runs at the end of the gaff.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Maria, in her excitement, jammed the bedroom and bedroom-closet doors together, and for five minutes, through the partly open door, clouds of steam, smelling of soap- suds and dirt, poured into the sick chamber.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The tackles jammed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But it was jammed beneath the overturned sled, and by the time Henry had helped him to right the load, One Ear and the she-wolf were too close together and the distance too great to risk a shot.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The Aurora was the first steamboat of the year for the Outside, and her decks were jammed with prosperous adventurers and broken gold seekers, all equally as mad to get to the Outside as they had been originally to get to the Inside.

(White Fang, by Jack London)