Definitions for wad

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Spelling: [wod]

IPA: /wɒd/

Wad is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in wad (adw).

Definitions for wad

noun

1. a small mass, lump, or ball of anything:
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:
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.
7. a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.

Idioms

1. shoot one's wad, Informal. to spend all one's money: to expend all one's energies or resources at one time: Slang: Vulgar. (of a man) to have an orgasm.

verb (used with object)

1. to form (material) into a wad.
2. to roll tightly (often followed by up):
3. to hold in place by a wad:
4. to put a wad into; stuff with a wad.
5. to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad:

verb (used without object)

1. to become formed into a wad:

Origin of wad

1530-40; Medieval Latin wadda Arabic bāṭa'in lining of a garment, batting; compare French ouate, Dutch watte, Swedish vadd

Examples for wad

He was handsome, flirty, and always had a wad of cash from which he dispensed $10 and $20 bills.

Peggy commits a grievous faux pas when she nervously eyes her purse—with a wad of cash inside—next to the sofa.

HE was arrested for drug trafficking outside the dry cleaners and police found a wad of cash in his left front pocket.

But I wad sing on wanton wing, When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd.

How I wad mourn, when it was torn By autumn wild, and winter rude!

The big fellows at the clubs always had a wad and peeled off bills like skin off an onion.

A vera good right, I think; or if he hadna, I wad like to know wha had?

Justice fronted UCE 48 a wad of 40 hundred-dollar bills to pay the pharmacist.

"It wad hit the pair of 'em," McNab chuckled, and with that word the Devil conquered.

A quick glance—a sniff—is all it takes to acknowledge a wad.