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cram

/kɹæm/ noun C2
  1. The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). (countable, uncountable)
  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 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)
  5. A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information. (countable, uncountable)

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But I suppose you’ll have to cram in the evenings.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 267 · C1
I couldn’t ‘cram’ because I’d promised Miss Stacy not to, but it was as hard to keep from opening my history as it used to be to keep from reading a story before my lessons were learned.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 268 · C1
“Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty—cram full of gout, too.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 103 · C1

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