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Latest comment: 11 months ago by Equinox in topic Possible missing sense: in (legal, police) difficulties?
Possible missing sense: in (legal, police) difficulties?
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- from "in a jam" (see §I 2018) according to https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/jammed+up. 2004 definition which states that it's about legal or police problems: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jammed%20up. More reliable source attributing it to US, 1973: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English (2008).