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real jam

real jam noun: anything exceptionally good.

Noun

real jam (uncountable)

  1. (UK, slang) Anything exceptionally good.
    • That's the real jam!
    • It's real jam, that little pictur his . I wouldn't mind springin' the price to a century. There! Shall I send my boy round to tell him so?George Augustus Sala, The Story of Jack the Painter, in 1863, Tales and Essays (volume 3, page 10)

Questions about real jam

What does real jam mean?
Real jam means anything exceptionally good.
What part of speech is real jam?
Real jam is a noun.

Words near real jam in the dictionary

  1. real function
  2. real functions
  3. real gone
  4. real image
  5. real images
  6. real jam
  7. real ledger
  8. real ledgers
  9. real life
  10. real line
  11. real lines

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