cram
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Is cram a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of cram?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.Examples: "to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people"; "Are we to blame Livingstone for Tube overcrowding? In part, yes, but as Sir John Eliot had observed in 1955, while Chairman of the London Transport Executive: 'They're not crammed in. They cram themselves in.'"; "The storm has passed when I arrive at Southampton Central, but more fun is to come. The station platforms and waiting rooms are crammed with people, many toting enormous amounts of baggage as they have just come off a cruise liner."transitive
2. (transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.Examples: "The boy crammed himself with cake"transitive
3. (transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.Examples: "A pupil is crammed by his tutor."transitive
4. (intransitive) To study hard; to swot.intransitive
5. (intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.intransitive
6. (intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.Britishdatedintransitiveslang
noun (English)
1. (slang, dated) Information hastily memorized.Examples: "a cram from an examination"countabledatedslanguncountable
2. (weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.countableuncountable
3. (dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.Examples: "It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do."; "Shut up, and don't tell crams."Synonyms: alternative fact, anti-fact, bluff, bollocks, bullshit, canard, cap, chinBritishcountabledatedslanguncountable
4. (uncountable) 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.uncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary