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jam-up

[ jam-uhp ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam:
Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.

Origin of jam-up¹

First recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase jam up

Nowadays, the crooks jam up the MetroCard dispensers so people are unable to purchase or replenish one.

I have seen a child rubbing a bit of bread-and-jam up and down on the dirty stone before it eats it.

But here was a taxi, jam up against the curb not a dozen feet62 off, with the chauffeur swingin' his cap enthusiastic.

"When the jam up broke we'd have the water and the wreckage down on the mine," he said.

The temperature must have been perfect, and connubial bliss I allot was rael jam up.

Put it jam up agin Plunkett's head un tell him to hole still ur die.

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