jam

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒæm/
• (Southern England, Australia) IPA: /ˈdʒæːm/
• Homophone: jamb

Noun

jam (countable and uncountable, plural jams)

1. (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
   • Synonyms: (US) conserve, jelly, preserve
2. (countable) A difficult situation.
   • Synonyms: see difficult situation
3. (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
   • A traffic jam caused us to miss the game's first period.
   • a jam of logs in a river
4. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
5. (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
6. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
   • We came up with some new ideas at the game jam.
7. (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
   • Teaching is my jam.
8. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
   • The pitcher's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.
9. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
10. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
    • Toughie scored four points in that jam.
11. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
    • I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.
12. (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
    • Synonyms: raspberry jam tree, stinking acacia
13. (UK, slang) Luck.
    • He's got more jam than Waitrose.
14. (Canada, slang) balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
    • I don't think he has the jam.
15. (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.

Verb

jam (third-person singular simple present jams, present participle jamming, simple past and past participle jammed)

1. To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
   • My foot got jammed in a gap between the rocks.
   • Her poor little baby toe got jammed in the door.
   • I jammed the top knuckle of my ring finger.
2. To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
   • They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.
   • The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.
3. To render something unable to move.
4. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
   • A single accident can jam the roads for hours.
5. To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
   • The government jams foreign propaganda broadcasts.
   • The airstrike suffered minimal casualties because electronic-warfare aircraft were jamming the enemy air-defense radars.
6. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
   • Jones was jammed by the pitch.
7. (basketball) To dunk.
8. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
9. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
   • When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.
10. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
    • Toughie jammed four times in the second period.
11. (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
12. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.

Noun

jam (plural jams)

1. (dated) A kind of frock for children.

Noun

jam (plural jams)

1. (mining) Alternative form of jamb

Anagrams

• JMA, Maj, Maj., maj, maj.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jam/

Verb

jam (first-person singular past tense qeshë, participle qenë)

1. to be

Noun

jam

1. hour
2. time

Pronunciation

Verb

jam

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to jam (to play music)

Pronunciation

Verb

jam

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to steal; to take without asking

Related terms

• 占 (zim1, zem1, “jam”)

Noun

jam m inan

1. yam (any Dioscorea vine)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒɛm/
• Hyphenation: jam

Noun

jam m (plural jams, diminutive jammetje n)

1. (chiefly Netherlands) jam (congealed sweet mixture of conserved fruits)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [jam]
• Hyphenation: jam

Adverb

jam

1. already, prior to some time
   • Ŝi jam nutris la bestojn. ― She already fed the animals.

Noun

jam o

1. (Pulaar) peace

Noun

jam

1. granary, storehouse

Noun

jam

1. lime

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈd͡ʒam]
• Hyphenation: jam

Noun

jam (first-person possessive jamku, second-person possessive jammu, third-person possessive jamnya)

1. hour (Time period of sixty minutes)
2. clock (instrument to measure or keep track of time)
3. (colloquial) time, particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something
   • Synonyms: pukul, saat, waktu

Adverb

jam (not comparable)

1. already

Noun

jam

1. hour
2. clock

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjam/
• Hyphenation: jam

Pronoun

jam

1. dative singular of jis
   • Es jam atsaceju par reizi. ― I replied to him right away.
   • Jam daguoja laistīs paceli nu sātys. ― He had to leave his home.
   • Vys jam nazkas natai. ― He's never satisfied. (literally, “It's never good enough for him.”)

Adverb

jam (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of iam

Noun

jam

1. time
2. hour
3. clock

Pronoun

jam m

1. (third-person singular) dative form of jis.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [d͡ʒam]

Noun

jam (Jawi spelling جم‎, plural jam-jam, informal 1st possessive jamku, 2nd possessive jammu, 3rd possessive jamnya)

1. hour (Time period of sixty minutes)
2. clock (instrument to measure or keep track of time)

Pronoun

jam

1. you (plural)
2. your (plural)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jam/
• Syllabification: jam

Noun

jam f

1. genitive plural of jama

Pronoun

jam

1. (informal, sometimes proscribed) Combined form of ja + -m

Noun

jam

1. genitive dual/plural of jama

Noun

jam m (plural jams or jam)

1. jam (music session)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /jɑːm/

Noun

jam n

1. meow (sound of a cat)
   • Synonym: (more common) mjau

Anagrams

• Maj, maj

Pronunciation

• IPA: /d͡ʒam/

Noun

jam m (plural jamiau, not mutable)

1. jam
   • Synonym: cyffaith

Noun

jam c (plural jams)

1. jam, fruit preserves