Cram
Cram verb - To fit (people or things) into a tight space.
Common collocations
| stuff | cram stuff | teach stuff |
| mathematics | cram mathematics | teach mathematics |
| words | cram words | teach words |
Both words in one sentence
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This schools not only teach how to play a children's card game but also double as cooking school, cram school and even fortune-telling school.
Source: Anime / Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V - Takako Shimizu from Chobits wanted to teach young children but her husband convinced her to become a Cram School teacher so they would have more time together.
Source: Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher -
Westminster Chimes: Cram Session/Educating Rotter, the pencil's charged attack, cuts to a classroom scene in which the player is trying to teach simple arithmetic to a group of dazed zombies while the Westminster chimes play in the background (due to their association with school in Japan).
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