Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

a small mass of soft material

• “he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter”

(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 wad of something chewable as tobacco

compress into a wad

• “wad paper into the box”

crowd or pack to capacity

• “the theater was jampacked”