LekhoriLekhoriA difficult situation.
It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.
A kind of frock for children.
Alternative form of jamb.
A household that is only barely able to meet its financial obligations.
Well, technically, a Jam is a working-class Brexit voter who feels alienated by the creeping march of globalisation.
To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
My foot got jammed in a gap between the rocks.
Abbreviation of Jamaica.
First attested in the early 18th c. as a verb meaning “to press, be pressed, be wedged in”. Compare dialectal jammock (“to press, squeeze, crush into a soft mass, chew food"; also "a soft, pulpy subst...
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To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.
To render something unable to move.
Considering the results of the CFD wind simulation, the NTSB designed several series of static and dynamic elevator load tests to determine what conditions, consistent with the known circumstances of the accident, could enable the inboard actuating crank and links of the right elevator's geared tab to move beyond their normal range of travel and become locked in an overcenter position (and, as a result, jam the right elevator).