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Jammed   /dʒæmd/   Listen
verb
Jam  v. t.  (past & past part. jammed; pres. part. jamming)  
1.
To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in; to cram; as, rock fans jammed the theater for the concert. "The ship... jammed in between two rocks."
2.
To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door. (Colloq.)
3.
(Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
4.
To block or obstruct by packing too much (people or objects) into; as, shoppers jammed the aisles during the fire sale.
5.
(Radio) To interfere with (a radio signal) by sending other signals of the same or nearby frequency; as, the Soviets jammed Radio Free Europe broadcasts for years during the cold war.
6.
To cause to become nonfunctional by putting something in that blocks the movement of a part or parts; as, he jammed the drawer by putting in too many loose papers; he jammed the lock by trying to pick it.


Jam  v. i.  
1.
To become stuck so as not to function; as, the copier jammed again.
2.
(Music) To play an instrument in a jam session.
3.
To crowd together; usually used with together or in; as, fifty people jammed into a conference room designed for twenty.


adjective
jammed  adj.  Filled to capacity or overfilled; as, the auditorium was jammed to the rafters.
Synonyms: full, jam-packed, packed.





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"Jammed" Quotes from Famous Books



... a demonstration close to Rouen, Henry IV., learning that the Duke of Mayenne was advancing in pursuit of him with an army of twenty-five thousand foot and eight thousand horse, thought it imprudent to wait for him and run the risk of being jammed between forces so considerable and the hostile population of a large city; so he struck his camp and took the road to Dieppe, in order to be near the coast and the re-enforcements from Queen Elizabeth. Some persons even suggested to him that in case ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
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... dive under the tables and spring madly up at the windows! Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney! Well might tables and chairs be upset, and glass and china be sent crashing on the floor, in the panic of that terrible moment when the four Heroes strode wrathfully into the room! The mighty Badger, his whiskers bristling, his great cudgel whistling ...
— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame
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... jammed the gateway. Keller, shooting down one or two of them, blocked the exit still more. Healy and his confederates could not get through, and turned to try the defile just as the first of the posse came flying down ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
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... the doorway of a small, hovel-like, two-story building that was jammed in between two tenements, which, relatively, in their own class, were even more disreputable than was the little frame house itself. A secondhand-clothes store occupied a portion of the ground floor, and housed the proprietor ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
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... prepared to catch hold and swing himself up. He had reached out his hand, and was just going to grasp the links, when, from the deck of the deserted brig there came savage growls and barks. Jerry jumped back in alarm and Ned, who had jammed a boat hook in the side of the brig, to hold the ...
— The Motor Boys on the Pacific • Clarence Young
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