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wad

Nouns

• (n) a small mass of soft material
  • he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
• (n) (often followed by "of") a large number or amount or extent
  • 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
  good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, batch, heap, mass, mountain, pile, plenty, raft, stack, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight,
• (n) a wad of something chewable as tobacco chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid,

Verbs

• (v) compress into a wad
  • wad paper into the box
  compact, bundle, pack,
• (v) crowd or pack to capacity
  • the theater was jampacked
  chock up, cram, jampack, ram, jam,

Synonyms

compact bundle pack good deal great deal hatful lot mickle mint muckle passel peck quite a little slew spate tidy sum batch heap mass mountain pile plenty raft stack deal flock pot mess sight chock up cram jampack ram jam chaw chew cud plug quid

See also

bundle off

Words of close approximity