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
It has everything the other one had, and a lot more, because it'll be cram-full of supplies to be used in case of a general blitz that would knock out everything on the planet.
From The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper
Then, just as they begin to give out, you’ll have got to be a mining engineer, with your pockets cram-full of money, and you’ll have to support me for the rest of my life.
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
But I've been a-workin' some sums about different kinds of cans—I learned how from Phipps, this afternoon—he's been to college, an' his head's cram-full of sech puzzlin' things.
From Romance of California Life by John Habberton
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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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