5. (colloquial).—A crush; a crowd.

1812. J. & H. Smith, Rejected Addresses. All is bustle, squeeze ...

and jam.

1864. Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 111. The surest eye for ... the

weak point of a jam.

1889. Illustrated Bits, 13 July. ‘I knew that there would be such a

jam that I couldn’t get inside the door.’

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