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▸ noun: (countable) A difficult situation.
▸ noun: (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
▸ noun: (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
▸ noun: (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
▸ noun: (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
▸ noun: (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
▸ noun: (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
▸ noun: (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
▸ noun: (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
▸ noun: (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
▸ noun: (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
▸ noun: (UK, slang) Luck.
▸ noun: (Canada, slang) balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
▸ noun: (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
▸ verb: To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
▸ verb: To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
▸ verb: To render something unable to move.
▸ verb: To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
▸ verb: To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
▸ verb: (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
▸ verb: (basketball) To dunk.
▸ verb: (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
▸ verb: To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
▸ verb: (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
▸ verb: (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
▸ verb: (colloquial) To be of high quality.
▸ noun: (dated) A kind of frock for children.
▸ noun: (UK, informal) A household that is only barely able to meet its financial obligations.
▸ noun: (mining) Alternative form of jamb [(architecture, interior decorating, carpentry) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of Jamaica. [An island and country in the Caribbean]
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