JAM

n. & v. --n. 1 a conserve of fruit and sugar boiled to a thick consistency. 2 Brit. colloq. something easy or pleasant (money for jam). --v.tr. (jammed, jamming) 1 spread jam on. 2 make (fruit etc.) into jam. øjam tomorrow a pleasant thing often promised but usu. never forthcoming. [perh. = JAM(1)]