1. A large number or amount
   "He had wads of cash in his wallet";
   - 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]

1. A small mass of soft material
   "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
    
2. A wad of something chewable as tobacco
   "He always had a wad in his cheek";
   - chew, chaw, quid, plug
    
3. (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], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, bunch [informal], scad [N. Amer, informal]
    
4. The seal or gasket used between the powder and shot in a muzzle-loaded firearm
   "He carefully inserted the wad after the powder"

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

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

Encyclopedia: Wads