Sekirov Dictionary

cram

/kɹæm/

verb 7
noun 6
forms 5
phrases 1

verb7

•
To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
- But you still need to check in with the Arch Linux community now and then to make sure that none of their crazy shit is going to be crammed down your throat the next update.
•
To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
- The boy crammed himself with cake
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
•
To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
- A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
To study hard; to swot.
(slang, old-fashioned) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
(slang, old-fashioned) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

noun6

•
The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
- But Billy Bunter was only the first in the field. As the news spread, there was a crowd, not to call it a cram, in No. 7 Study: […] — 1952
(slang, old-fashioned) Information hastily memorized.
A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
•
(slang, old-fashioned) A lie; a falsehood.
- It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do. — 1864
•
A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
- Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos. — 2017
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

forms

crammed · cramming · crammeth · crams · crammest

Phrases with cram

cram together
To put things together hastily as though to combine them.

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