cram

UK /kɹæm/ US /kɹæm/
verb 5noun 5name 1

Definitions

verb

1

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.

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.'

2

To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

The boy crammed himself with cake

3

To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.

A pupil is crammed by his tutor.

4

To study hard; to swot.

5

To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.

noun

1

The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).

But Billy Bunter was only the first in the field. As the news spread, there was a crowd, not to call it a cram, in No. 7 Study: […]

2

Information hastily memorized.

a cram from an examination

3

A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

4

A lie; a falsehood.

It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do.

Shut up, and don't tell crams.

5

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.

name

1

A surname.

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