wads Meaning, Definition & Usage
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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
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noun a small mass of soft material
wad.
- he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
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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
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noun a wad of something chewable as tobacco
plug; chew; wad; quid; cud; chaw.
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verb compress into a wad
compact; wad; bundle; pack.
- wad paper into the box
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verb crowd or pack to capacity
wad; ram; jampack; jam; chock up; cram.
- the theater was jampacked