real jam

noun

Anything exceptionally good.

“That's the real jam!”

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Meanings

nounreal jam (uncountable)
  1. UKslanguncountableAnything exceptionally good.

    That's the real jam!

    2 more examples

    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)

    It was real jam to see little NORRIS, who was out for the first time, in a horrid state about his four greys.

    1877, Punch, page 134
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