- a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper;a wad of tobacco.
- a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc.
- a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
- a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, especially money: He's got a healthy wad salted away.
- a plug of cloth, tow, paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a gun or cartridge.
- a bundle, especially a small one, of hay, straw, etc.
- to form (material) into a wad.
- to roll tightly (often followed by up): He wadded up his cap and stuck it into his pocket.
- to hold in place by a wad: They rammed and wadded the shot into their muskets.
- to put a wad into; stuff with a wad.
- to fill out with or as if with wadding; stuff; pad: to wad a quilt;to wad a speech with useless information.
- to become formed into a wad: The damp tissues had wadded in his pocket.
- shoot one's wad, Informal.
- to spend all one's money: He shot his wad on a new car.
- to expend all one's energies or resources at one time: She shot her wad writing her first novel and her second wasn't as good.
- (of a man) to have an orgasm.
- a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.
- a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing
- a plug of paper, cloth, leather, etc, pressed against a charge to hold it in place in a muzzle-loading cannon
- a disc of paper, felt, pasteboard, etc, used to hold in place the powder and shot in a shotgun cartridge
- a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes
- a large quantity, esp of money
- a bundle of hay or straw
- a bun
- to form (something) into a wad
- to roll into a wad or bundle
- (tr)
- to hold (a charge) in place with a wad
- to insert a wad into (a gun)
- to pack or stuff with wadding; pad
- a soft dark earthy amorphous material consisting of decomposed manganese minerals: occurs in damp marshy areas
