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Meaning of wad

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  wad
      n 1: a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to
           wipe the counter"
      2: (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" [syn:
         {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal},
         {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint},
         {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
         {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
         {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
      3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: {chew}, {chaw},
         {cud}, {quid}, {plug}, {wad}]
      v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: {pack},
           {bundle}, {wad}, {compact}]
      2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
         {jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {cram}, {wad}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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