From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wad
n 1: a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to
wipe the counter"
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
"he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the
winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad]
3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
cud, quid, plug, wad]
v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack,
bundle, wad, compact]
2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]