Wad - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|wɑːd|
Brit.
|wɒd|
noun
- a small mass of soft material
he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent (syn: batch, deal, flock, heap, lot, mass, mess, mint, mountain, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack)a wad of money
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco (syn: chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid)verb
- compress into a wad (syn: bundle, compact, pack)
wad paper into the box
- crowd or pack to capacity (syn: chock up, cram, jam, ram)Extra examples
He spent a wad on clothes.
...a starlet who usually gets a big wad of publicity for her nonstop antics...
...disgusted, she wadded up the paper and threw it in the wastebasket...
Word forms
noun
singular: wad
plural: wads
singular: wad
plural: wads
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