Once just shorthand for a tour bundling transport and lodging, these days it carries dingier connotations: high-rise hotels, beaches crammed with blistering bodies, lurid cocktails slurped from exposed belly buttons.
Not to mention the accidental harm that panicked people can do to each other when crammed into confined spaces.
Last Monday at 6pm, Cruddas and most of the other remaining 231 Labour MPs (26 fewer than a week before) crammed into committee room 14 in the House of Commons to hear Harriet Harman, the acting leader, attempt to lift the depleted, demoralised parliamentary party off the floor.
The month before, I crammed a car seat the size of an armoured tank into our tiny vehicle to protect her on the road.
Twenty-two people are crammed into an unfinished house donated by a local businessman, who loaned out the tiny, windowless building when he saw her and a group of fellow refugees sleeping rough in the streets.
I chose the name Savse because it means "crammed full" in Georgian, and the smoothies are crammed with goodness.
By Shakespeare's time, the church was already nearly 500 years old, crammed with crumbling tombs and memorials, some of them dating back to the Crusades.
In the mid 1950s, Joan had discovered the delights of pottery and she became an accomplished and highly individual ceramicist and, later, collage-maker, her home becoming crammed with her own objects, which she delighted in sharing with visitors.
"It's bloody hard," says Wirth, reflecting on a lifetime of emotion crammed into four months.
As 21,322 people crammed into Tannadice to welcome an under pressure Terry Venables and his under performing Barcelona side, few could have wished for a better start.
"All the European cities do relatively poorly, perhaps because there are so many crammed up against each other," says Stephens.
