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/ˈd͡ʒæm/ · noun
(less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
He is allergic to jam.
She loves eating jam for breakfast in hotels.
It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
She was married when we first met / Soon to be divorced / I helped her out of a jam, I guess / But I used a little too much force
Where, where is my common sense? / How did I get in a jam like this?
a jam on the 101 South, blocking the two right lanes [radio report]
a jam of logs in a river
According to Boeing, in the history of this elevator design (which exists on all Boeing DC-9/MD-80 series and 717 model airplanes), this accident was the first notification that Boeing had received of an elevator jam occurring on an airplane exposed to ground gusts lower than 65 kts. Boeing noted that the elevator design first entered service in 1965 on the then-Douglas DC-9 airplane.
Use jam. when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jam. means (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
Common synonyms include ram, conserve, jelly, preserve.
Possible antonyms include free, disengage.
He is allergic to jam.
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