jam-pack
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of jam-pack
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Seven first-time skydivers and their instructors managed to jam-pack the Cessna, squatting on foam benches stretching the length of the roughly 16-foot cabin.
From Washington Post
One suspicion is that her managers intentionally jam-pack her schedule to limit questions and small talk.
Marvel’s newest television entry is always building to a next step or contributing a piece to a larger whole while the CW television of late seems content to jam-pack each seasons with character interpretations that can be revisited, changed or passed whole-cloth onto another superhero show.
From Forbes
They’d jam-pack that ballroom, the black girls in way-out silk and satin dresses and shoes, their hair done in all kinds of styles, the men sharp in their zoot suits and crazy conks, and everybody grinning and greased and gassed.
From Literature
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
From Literature
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