wads Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a large number or amount
    heaps; rafts; piles; lots; scads; slews; tons; gobs; scores; oodles; loads; dozens; stacks; lashings.
    • made lots of new friends
    • she amassed stacks of newspapers
  2. noun a small mass of soft material
    wad.
    • he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
  3. noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
    plenty; great deal; pot; sight; flock; mint; slew; mountain; deal; wad; muckle; pile; lot; mickle; raft; quite a little; passel; hatful; mess; spate; heap; peck; stack; good deal; batch; tidy sum; mass.
    • a batch of letters
    • a deal of trouble
    • a lot of money
    • he made a mint on the stock market
    • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
    • it must have cost plenty
    • a slew of journalists
    • a wad of money
  4. noun a wad of something chewable as tobacco
    plug; chew; wad; quid; cud; chaw.
  5. verb compress into a wad
    compact; wad; bundle; pack.
    • wad paper into the box
  6. verb crowd or pack to capacity
    wad; ram; jampack; jam; chock up; cram.
    • the theater was jampacked

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