To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people
To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study
put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase
If you are cramming for an examination, you are learning as much as possible in a short time just before you take the examination. She was cramming for her Economics exam + cramming cram·ming It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont's bar exam
study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase