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  • noun Plural form of wad.

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  • noun a large number or amount

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Examples

  • Removing the wads from the latter with my knife, emptied the powder on a flat rock.

    Chapter 29 1904

  • He found two "wads" of cash totaling $974 in the teen's coat and pants pockets.

    D.C. police's search for drugs on D.C. teen is ruled illegal 2010

  • He found two "wads" of cash totaling $974 in the teen's coat and pants pockets.

    D.C. police's search for drugs on D.C. teen is ruled illegal 2010

  • We have the schedule all figured out so it's empty when we go (though wads of big league chew in the grass create the occasional distraction ...).

    Where To Train? 2009

  • Be advised that the Patternmaster and other choke tubes with internal tabs or quasi-rifling work extremely poorly with Federal Flight Control wads.

    You Saw It Here First 2009

  • The politicians are blaming a culture of selfishness, egged on by Wall Street, as if bankers staring at wads of cash would garner inspiration to put the communal interest before their own pockets.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Decline and Fall of British Values Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • The politicians are blaming a culture of selfishness, egged on by Wall Street, as if bankers staring at wads of cash would garner inspiration to put the communal interest before their own pockets.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Decline and Fall of British Values Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • We have the schedule all figured out so it's empty when we go (though wads of big league chew in the grass create the occasional distraction ...).

    Where To Train? 2009

  • Patternmaster makes a special choke designed for Federal Flight Control wads and the Black Cloud shells.

    You Saw It Here First 2009

  • I have about half of two boxes of older Federal 3 1/2 load #5's that do not have the new Flight Control wads.

    You Saw It Here First 2009

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