jam

(countable, uncommon, uncountable)(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

He is allergic to jam.

She loves eating jam for breakfast in hotels.

Đồng nghĩa: conserve, jelly, preserve

(countable)A difficult situation.

Đồng nghĩa: ass in a sling, bind, bucket of syrup, calvary, cauldron, cross, cross to bear, difficulty, dilemma, dire straits, doghouse, fix, hole, jam, kettle, kettle of fish, ordeal, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, quandary, quagmire, situation, spot, spot of bother, sticky situation, sticky wicket, tight spot, trouble

(countable)A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.

a jam on the 101 South, blocking the two right lanes [radio report]

a jam of logs in a river

Đồng nghĩa: jam-up

(common, countable)(countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.

(broadly, countable, informal)(countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.

pump up the jam

(broadly, countable)(countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.

We came up with some new ideas at the game jam.

(countable, slang)That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.

Teaching is my jam.

(countable)(countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.

(countable)(countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.

Toughie scored four points in that jam.

(countable)(countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.

I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.

(Australia, countable, uncountable)The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.

Đồng nghĩa: raspberry jam tree, stinking acacia

(UK, countable, slang, uncountable)Luck.

He's got more jam than Waitrose.

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.

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.

Jamm’d in at midnight, in cold winter weather,

To render something unable to move.

To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".

A single accident can jam the roads for hours.

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.

(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.

Jones was jammed by the pitch.

(basketball) To dunk.

(music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).

To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.

When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.

(roller derby) To attempt to score points.

Toughie jammed four times in the second period.

(transitive)(nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

(Canada, informal)To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.