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jammed

 adjective
     
jammed [not before noun]
1 stuck and impossible to move:
Ben had got his finger jammed in the door.
2 full of people or things [= packed]:
The place is jammed. We'll never get in.
jammed with
The town was completely jammed with traffic.
➔ jam-packed
3 if people are jammed in a place, there are a lot of them there, so that there is no space between them:
We were jammed together, shoulder to shoulder, in the narrow corridor.
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