Adjective: jammed jamd
- Extremely crowded or filled to capacity
"a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes";
- jam-packed [informal], packed, packed out
- Not working due to having something caught or stuck
"the printer is jammed"
- Crowd or pack to capacity
"the theatre was jammed";
- jampack [informal], ram, cram, wad
- Block passage through
"jam the path";
- obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, block, close up
- Press tightly together or cram
"The crowd jammed the auditorium";
- throng, mob, pack, pile
- Push down forcibly
"The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
- Hurt or bruise with a squashing force
"jam a toe";
- crush
- Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
"Jam the Voice of America";
- block
- Get stuck and immobilized
"the mechanism jammed"
- [informal] (popular music) play music in a group, esp. improvising
"The band jammed for hours in the garage"
See also: crowded
Type of: bruise, contuse [technical], crowd, crowd together, cut off, disrupt, entrammel [literary], fetter [literary], force, hinder, impede, interrupt, malfunction, misfunction, push, stuff, trammel [literary]
Antonym: disengage
Encyclopedia: Jammed
Jam, Khuzestan