wad

Noun

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  • a batch of letters
    
  • a deal of trouble
    
  • a lot of money
    
  • he made a mint on the stock market
    
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
    
  • it must have cost plenty
    
  • a slew of journalists
    
  • a wad of money
    

• a small mass of soft material
  • he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
    

Verb

• crowd or pack to capacity
  • the theater was jampacked
    

• compress into a wad
  • wad paper into the box
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  chew , chaw , cud , quid , plug , batch , jam , jampack , ram , chock up , cram , pack , bundle , compact