standing room only vs thick

standing room only

phrase
  • The situation where an event is so well attended, or public transportation so full, that all of the seats in the venue are occupied, leaving only the ground or the floor for other people. 

thick

adv
  • Frequently or numerously. 

  • In a thick manner. 

adj
  • Heavy in build; thickset. 

  • Densely crowded or packed. 

  • Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. 

  • Having a viscous consistency. 

  • Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated. 

  • Detailed and expansive; substantive. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Friendly or intimate. 

  • Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips. 

  • Impenetrable to sight. 

  • Deep, intense, or profound. 

  • Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension. 

  • Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin. 

  • Abounding in number. 

noun
  • A stupid person; a fool. 

  • The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. 

  • A thicket. 

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