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Adjective: jammed  jamd
  1. Extremely crowded or filled to capacity
    "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes";
    - jam-packed [informal], packed, packed out
     
  2. Not working due to having something caught or stuck
    "the printer is jammed"
Verb: jam (jammed,jamming)  jam
  1. Press tightly together or cram
    "The crowd jammed the auditorium";
    - throng, mob, pack, pile
     
  2. Push down forcibly
    "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
     
  3. Hurt or bruise with a squashing force
    "jam a toe";
    - crush
     
  4. Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
    "Jam the Voice of America";
    - block
     
  5. Get stuck and immobilized
    "the mechanism jammed"
     
  6. Crowd or pack to capacity
    "the theatre was jammed";
    - jampack [informal], ram, cram, wad
     
  7. Block passage through
    "jam the path";
    - obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up
     
  8. [informal] (popular music) play music in a group, esp. improvising

See also: crowded

Type of: break up, bruise, contuse, crowd, crowd together, cut off, disrupt, entrammel [literary], fetter [literary], force, hinder, impede, interrupt, malfunction, misfunction, push, stuff, trammel [literary]

Encyclopedia: Jammed

Jam, Khuzestan