jam
jam
- n preserve of crushed fruit
- n informal terms for a difficult situation
- n a dense crowd of people
- n deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
- v press tightly together or cram
- v push down forcibly
The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor - v crush or bruise
jam a toe - v interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- v get stuck and immobilized
the mechanism jammed - v crowd or pack to capacity
the theater was jampacked - v block passage through
- In the White House driveway there was something close to a traffic jam.
- Grissom squeezed out of the jam, and the Giants went on to win the Series.
- It's like a traffic jam in your mind.