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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

1. Compress into a wad
   "wad paper into the box";
   - pack, bundle, compact
    
2. Crowd or pack to capacity
   - jam, jampack [informal], ram, cram

Derived forms: wads, wadding, wadded

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

Encyclopedia: Wad