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 • Aug. 8, 2021
One suspicion is that her managers intentionally jam-pack her schedule to limit questions and small talk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2016
On Memorial Day each year 140,000 to 168,000 people jam-pack the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to watch 33 cars roar round & round a two-and-a-half-mile, brick-&-asphalt oval.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 10�| hours a day, seven clerks hustle to fill the grocery orders of the 4,000 customers who jam-pack the store every week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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