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jam
noun- a difficult position, an awkward situation; a difficulty; trouble US, 1914
- The Committee on Standards in Public Life [...] was set up in a rush by a prime minister in a jam who couldn’t cope with the clouds of murk engulfing his government. — The Guardian, 14 January 2000
- Golliwog stunt leaves Tory in a jam. — The Guardian, 6 September 2001
- a recorded song US, 1937
- Fuck dat honky shit. Got to get me some motown jams, dig it? — Platoon, 1986
- I push it the way it is, the record’ll get some nods, yeah, it’s pretty good stuff, slightly different, but you won’t get the buzz you need–hey shit, this jam reaches out and moves you. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 280, 1999
- Radio won’t even play my jam / ‘Cause I am whatever you say I am[.] — Eminem (Marshall Mathers), The Way I Am, 2000
- a record album US Usually in the plural.
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, March 1981
- blues, jazz or rock music simultaneously improvised by an informal gathering of musicians; a period spent making such music UK, 1929
- Lined up across the stage during the final blues jam was a most unlikely combination of musicians[.] — The Guardian, 12 November 2003
- a party with loud music US
- This is an all-the-way-live ghetto jam. — Menace II Society, 1993
- There was park jams going on. — A2Z [quoting KRS-One, 1994], p. 56, 1995
- The high point at the jam [was] where everyone starts battling each other, trying to do the dopest moves and get the most props. — Alex Ogg, The Hip Hop Years [quoting “Crazy Legs” Richie Colon], p. 16, 1999
- cocaine US
- If that man goes out and does a hundred dollars jam a night, that is her fault. — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 85, 1972
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 286, 1986
- amphetamines US, 1953
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 286, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 279, 2003
- sex US
- Everybody plays jam in that park, gets their trim. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 61, 1949
- the vagina US
- — Edith A. Folb, runnin’ down some lines, p. 243, 1980
- in homosexual usage, any heterosexual man US
An abbreviation of “just a man”. - — Male Swinger Number 3, p. 47, 1981: “The complete gay dictionary”
- the corpse of a person who has died with massive injuries US, 1987
- — Maledicta, p. 180, Summer/Winter 1986–1987: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
- a fight, especially a gang fight US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 90, 1992
- a gathering of skateboarders US
- — Albert Cassorla, The Skateboarder’s Bible, p. 201, 1976
- petty smuggling US
- — American Speech, p. 96, May 1956: “Smugglers’ argot in the Southwest”
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