Wad


noun
1.
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything:
a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
2.
a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc.
3.
a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
4.
Informal. a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, especially money:
He’s got a healthy wad salted away.
5.
a plug of cloth, tow, paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.
6.
British Dialect. a bundle, especially a small one, of hay, straw, etc.
verb (used with object), wadded, wadding.
7.
to form (material) into a wad.
8.
to roll tightly (often followed by up):
He wadded up his cap and stuck it into his pocket.
9.
to hold in place by a wad:
They rammed and wadded the shot into their muskets.
10.
to put a wad into; stuff with a wad.
11.
to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad:
to wad a quilt; to wad a speech with useless information.
verb (used without object), wadded, wadding.
12.
to become formed into a wad:
The damp tissues had wadded in his pocket.
Idioms
13.
shoot one’s wad, Informal.

to spend all one’s money:
He shot his wad on a new car.
to expend all one’s energies or resources at one time:
She shot her wad writing her first novel and her second wasn’t as good.
Slang: Vulgar. (of a man) to have an orgasm.

noun
1.
a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.
noun
1.
a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing
2.

a plug of paper, cloth, leather, etc, pressed against a charge to hold it in place in a muzzle-loading cannon
a disc of paper, felt, pasteboard, etc, used to hold in place the powder and shot in a shotgun cartridge

3.
a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes
4.
(US & Canadian, slang) a large quantity, esp of money
5.
(Brit, dialect) a bundle of hay or straw
6.
(Brit, military, slang) a bun: char and a wad
verb wads, wadding, wadded
7.
to form (something) into a wad
8.
(transitive) to roll into a wad or bundle
9.
(transitive)

to hold (a charge) in place with a wad
to insert a wad into (a gun)

10.
(transitive) to pack or stuff with wadding; pad
noun
1.
a soft dark earthy amorphous material consisting of decomposed manganese minerals: occurs in damp marshy areas
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