Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a jar for holding jellies or preserves.

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  • noun UK Common misspelling of jam jar. A glass container for jam.
  • noun Cockney rhyming slang Car.

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  • noun a jar for holding jellies or preserves

Etymologies

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jam +‎ jar

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Examples

  • I really must be an idiot because I completely don't understand what you're trying to say here. jamjar

    The Guardian World News Matthew Weaver 2010

  • The jamjar studio will hold a pen and ink workshop with artist Vivek Premchandran.

    AME Info Latest News 2009

  • Police said the substance, found in a sealed jamjar in the kitchen of the terraced house in Burnopfield, north west Durham, on Tuesday, could have been there for up to two years.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • Not literally, of course - although as they scrape the bottom of the divorce story jamjar it's only a matter of time before they suggest a ghost might have been involved.

    No Rock And Roll Fun 2008

  • "Alex, my son, with backberry jam smeared ear to ear and laughing, rides his unbroken joy with words so fast we let him get away on the jamjar without clean cheeks first.

    Wacky Mommy 2008

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