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jamming
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jam \Jam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jammed (j[a^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Jamming .] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between jambs, or more likely from the same source as champ See Champ .] To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jamming in dance culture is a kind of informal show-off during a social dance party. Dancers clear a circle ( jam circle or dance circle ) and dancers or dance couples take turns showing their best tricks while the remaining dancers cheer the jammers on. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context slang English) Great; awesome. n. The act or process of jamming. v (present participle of jam English)
Usage examples of jamming.
Ty watched his own feet leave the ice as Greg Porter, a gorilla-sized defenseman for Dallas, smashed him into the boards, his left shoulder jamming up into his ear.
Down in Australia however, the hastily appointed French translator to Parliament was having trouble convincing the government that this new radio gargling was a jamming field of some kind and not an obscure form of the Gaulic tongue.
Caamas Document and then punch it out through whatever jamming the Imperials have going.
The Migs were inbound without radar, without jamming, without any electronic indication that they were doing anything besides conducting routine training operations.
A single MiG got a radar contact off a retreating jamming aircraft and radioed Keflavik, only to learn from his ground controllers that nothing was on the scopes out to a range of three hundred kilometers.
Above, traffic copters clipped and hummed among the air traffic to keep the rubberneckers from jamming the sky as well.
He grabbed his Hobie seabag off the floor and began frantically jamming things into it.
Dorcas pegged her jockey cap on the head of a marble statue of the great local hero, Smuggler Jim Biggins, and jamming her red hair behind her ears, squared her shoulders and got down to the serious business of twiddling dials.
Two thousand people gathered, while men who had blackened their faces with coal dust set about methodically tearing up tracks, jamming switches, derailing cars, setting fire to cabooses and also to a railroad bridge.
Fortunately, Sophie decided on the more conventional route, jamming the wheel hard to the right, circling properly until she exited, cut left, and swung into the northbound lane, accelerating toward Rue de Rivoli.
Worse, radio control was of a new type, and the experts had, as yet, found no way of jamming it.
The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches.
Lesser breeds had to paddle for it in the scummy, brackish canals of Times Square, Wall Street, Rockefeller Center, and other unimportant places, fending off lumps of offal and each other as best they could, or jamming over the interbuilding bridges, or trying to flag down an occasional blimp.
They surged into the front hall and grabbed their parkas from the coatrack and jostling and complaining at one another they arrayed themselves for the out-of-doors, slinging knapsacks over their backs, jamming gloves onto their hands, winding and knotting scarves.
If the Magelords were jamming hi-comms as Captain Rosselin-Metadi claimed, realtime updates from other ships in the fleet would have stopped as well.