Definition of "wad" in English

noun

1. An amorphous, compact mass.

   • Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.

2. A substantial pile (normally of money).

   • With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.

3. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.

4. (slang) A sandwich.

5. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.

verb

1. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

   • She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.

2. (Ulster) To wager.

3. To insert or force a wad into.

   • to wad a gun

4. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

   • to wad a cloak

noun

1. (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.

2. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.