toe jam

See also: toe-jam and toejam

English

Alternative forms

• toe-jam, toejam

Pronunciation

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Noun

toe jam (countable and uncountable, plural toe jams)

1. (uncountable, slang) Sticky matter accumulated between digits of a foot.
2. (countable) A stubbed toe. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (countable) A rock-climbing maneuver entailing exerting force with two opposite surfaces of the toe of a shod foot, against two different rock surfaces, for the purpose of preventing motion of that foot in a direction parallel to both of those rock surfaces.

Translations

sticky matter

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 足垢 (zúgòu)

• Finnish: varvasnöyhtä
• German: Zehenkäse m, Zehenschmiere f

stubbed toe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: isketty varvas
• German: Zehenstumpf m

rock-climbing maneuver

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: jammaus varpaalla
• German: Zehenkeil m