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Definitions for Wad

[1] a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
[2] a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc.
[3] a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
[4] Informal . a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, especially money: He's got a healthy wad salted away.
[5] a plug of cloth, tow, paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.
[6] British Dialect . a bundle, especially a small one, of hay, straw, etc.
[7] to form (material) into a wad.
[8] to roll tightly (often followed by up ): He wadded up his cap and stuck it into his pocket.
[9] to hold in place by a wad: They rammed and wadded the shot into their muskets.
[10] to put a wad into; stuff with a wad.
[11] to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad: to wad a quilt; to wad a speech with useless information.
[12] to become formed into a wad: The damp tissues had wadded in his pocket.
[13] shoot one's wad , Informal . to spend all one's money: He shot his wad on a new car. to expend all one's energies or resources at one time: She shot her wad writing her first novel and her second wasn't as good. Slang : Vulgar . (of a man) to have an orgasm.
[14] a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.
[15] a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing
[16] a plug of paper, cloth, leather, etc, pressed against a charge to hold it in place in a muzzle-loading cannon a disc of paper, felt, pasteboard, etc, used to hold in place the powder and shot in a shotgun cartridge
[17] a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes
[18] US and Canadian slang a large quantity, esp of money
[19] British dialect a bundle of hay or straw
[20] British military slang a bun char and a wad
[21] to form (something) into a wad
[22] (tr) to roll into a wad or bundle
[23] (tr) to hold (a charge) in place with a wad to insert a wad into (a gun)
[24] (tr) to pack or stuff with wadding; pad
[25] a soft dark earthy amorphous material consisting of decomposed manganese minerals: occurs in damp marshy areas

Words related to Wad

lump, chunk, clump, packet, bundle, gathering, heap, pot, back, pile, mint, slew, bunch, tuft, lining, boodle, pad, mass, roll, ream

Words nearby Wad

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Origin of Wad

2First recorded in 1605–15; origin uncertain

Other words from Wad

wad·der , noun
un·wad·ded , adjective

Word origin for Wad

C17: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Wad

bundle, chunk, clump, lump, packet, back, block, boodle, bunch, cushion, fortune, gathering, heap, hunk, lining, mass, mint, nugget, pad, pile, plug, pot, ream, roll, slew, stuff, tuft, wadding