real jam

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Noun

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real jam (uncountable)

  1. (UK, slang) Anything exceptionally good.
    That's the real jam!
    • George Augustus Sala, The Story of Jack the Painter, in 1863, Tales and Essays (volume 3, page 10)
      It's real jam, that little pictur his [sic]. I wouldn't mind springin' the price to a century. There! Shall I send my boy round to tell him so?
    • 1877, Punch, page 134:
      It was real jam to see little NORRIS, who was out for the first time, in a horrid state about his four greys.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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