jam

Meanings

• preserve of crushed fruit
• informal terms for a difficult situation
• a dense crowd of people
• deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
• press tightly together or cram
• push down forcibly
  • "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
• crush or bruise
  • "jam a toe"
• interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
  • "Jam the Voice of America"
• get stuck and immobilized
  • "the mechanism jammed"
• crowd or pack to capacity
  • "the theater was jampacked"
• block passage through

Synonyms

block, chock up, close up, cram, crush, electronic jamming, fix, hole, impede, jamming, jampack, kettle of fish, mess, mob, muddle, obstruct, obturate, occlude, pack, pickle, pile, press, ram, throng, wad