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Noun: wads  wódz
Usage: informal
  1. A large number or amount
    "made wads of new friends";
    - tons [informal], dozens, heaps [informal], lots, piles [informal], scores, stacks [informal], loads [informal], rafts [informal], slews, oodles [informal], gobs [N. Amer, informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], lashings [Brit, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]
Noun: wad  wód
  1. A small mass of soft material
    "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
     
  2. (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
    "a wad of money";
    - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, bunch [informal]
     
  3. A wad of something chewable as tobacco
    - chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug
Verb: wad (wadded,wadding)  wód
  1. Compress into a wad
    "wad paper into the box";
    - pack, bundle, compact
     
  2. Crowd or pack to capacity
    - jam, jampack [informal], ram, cram

Type of: arrange, bit, bite, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, material, morsel, set up, stuff

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