An amorphous, compact mass.
Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
A substantial pile (normally of money).
With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.
Plumbago, graphite.
Wad was worth the equivalent of £1,300 a tonne, and some people felt it was worth risking a whipping to smuggle it out.
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
To wager.
Acronym of works as designed.
Acronym of where's all the data?, commonly used when referring to the video game Doom.
Probably short for Middle English wadmal (“woolen cloth”), from Old Norse váðmál (“woolen stuff”), from váð (“cloth”) + mál (“measure”). See wadmal. Cognate with Swedish vadd (“wadding, cotton wool”),...
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To insert or force a wad into.
to wad a gun