What is the meaning of wads?

noun

• A small mass of soft material.
  • usage: "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
  • synonyms: wad
• Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: 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
• A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
  • synonyms: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad
• A large number or amount.
  • usage: "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
  • synonyms: tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings

verb

• Compress into a wad.
  • usage: "wad paper into the box"
  • synonyms: pack, bundle, wad, compact
• Crowd or pack to capacity.
  • usage: "the theater was jampacked"
  • synonyms: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad