a small mass of soft material; he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter'

(often followed by `of) a large number or amount or extent; a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money

[ Syn: batch , deal , flock , good deal , great deal , hatful , heap , lot , mass , mess , mickle , mint , mountain , muckle , passel , peck , pile , plenty , pot , quite a little , raft , sight , slew , spate , stack , tidy sum ]

a wad of something chewable as tobacco

[ Syn: chew , chaw , cud , quid , plug ]

compress into a wad; wad paper into the box

[ Syn: pack , bundle , compact ]

crowd or pack to capacity; the theater was jampacked

[ Syn: jam , jampack , ram , chock up , cram ]