- material, as cotton or straw, used to pad something.
- something added unnecessarily or dishonestly, as verbiage to a speech or a false charge on an expense account.
- the act of a person or thing that pads.
- any soft material used to pad clothes, furniture, etc
- superfluous material put into a speech or written work to pad it out; waffle
- inflated or false entries in a financial account, esp an expense account
