cram-full
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of cram-full
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Two U.S. passenger-cargo ships, cram-full of servicemen, war stuffs and civilians on war missions, started eastward across the Atlantic in early February.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why all this profuse vegetation and the anomaly of tempting fruits and nuts cram-full of meat and yet no real food—that is, food for man?
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
The Phaynix Park is all cram-full o' coal that the Castle folks won't allow us to dig, bad scran to them!
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
Not only is my eye by very much the shortest road to my heart, but, like all other short roads, it is cram-full of all kinds of traffic when my ear stands altogether empty.
From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander
It’s cram-full of business, and the situations are tremendous!”
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
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