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In some senses, cram is marked as dated, slang, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
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.'
To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
The boy crammed himself with cake
To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
To study hard; to swot.
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
noun
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: […]
Information hastily memorized.
a cram from an examination
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
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.
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
A surname.