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Cram
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). countable, uncountable
"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. countable, dated, slang, uncountable
"a cram from an examination"
- 3 A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. countable, uncountable
- 4 A lie; a falsehood. British, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
"It is awful, an old un like that telling such crams as she do."
- 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. uncountable
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- 6 A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information. countable, uncountable
"Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos."
- 1 To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. transitive
"to cram fruit into a basket; to cram a room with people"
- 2 prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam wordnet
- 3 To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. transitive
"The boy crammed himself with cake"
- 4 study intensively, as before an exam wordnet
- 5 To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination. transitive
"A pupil is crammed by his tutor."
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- 6 crowd or pack to capacity wordnet
- 7 To study hard; to swot. intransitive
- 8 put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled wordnet
- 9 To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself. intransitive
- 10 To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth. British, dated, intransitive, slang
- 11 To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales. British, dated, slang, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).
From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).
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