Usually means: Sweet spread made from fruit.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. jam: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Jam, jam, jam, jam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jam, jam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Jam, jam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jam, jam: Wordnik
  7. jam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Jam, jam: Wiktionary
  9. jam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Jam, Jam, jam: Dictionary.com
  13. jam (n.), jam (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. JAM, JAM, Jam (Michael Jackson song), Jam (TV series), Jam (Turn It Up), Jam (album), Jam (disambiguation), Jam (film), Jam (music), Jam (novel), Jam (song), Jam (tv series), Jam, Jam, The Jam (Comics), The Jam (band), The Jam (production team), The Jam, The jam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jam: Free Dictionary
  19. jam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Jam, jam: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. jam: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. jam: Rhymezone
  23. jam, jam (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  24. jam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  25. Jam: Britih-American Dictionary
  26. JAM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  27. Jam: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jam: Cooking Dictionary
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jam: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. JaM, jam: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. JAM: Netlingo
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Jam (music), jam: Encyclopedia
  5. JAM: CCI Computer

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. jam: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. JAM: Acronym Finder
  2. JAM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. jam: Idioms
  5. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. JAM: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, jam, Jam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jam: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. jam: The Folk File
  4. Jam: 1960's Slang
  5. jam: ESL Slang page
  6. Jam: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang
  7. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  3. Jam: Poker Terms
  4. Jam: Dan's Poker
  5. Jam: Croquet

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (less common in the US and Canada) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
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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