re: Is the phrase “jam up” a Mississippi thing?

The only time I’ve heard of “jam up” was when Bret Hart referred to El Dandy as a “jam up guy”. It sounded like a compliment. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing?

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1970 "Jamm Up and Jelly Tight" was a song by Tommy Roe. Google lyrics or YouTube if you want. But you won't get it out of your head for awhile.

Don't start in on the cat. I swear to God, I will jam you into the middle of next week. We will jam, and jam AND JAM until there is nothing left of the two of you to jam.

It’s in the movie “Rounders” which was set in NYC in the late 90’s. I think that you were just a late bloomer.

ETA: yeah, my bad. I’ve never heard it used that way and half of my dads dipshit family is from central MS.

my dad used to tell the story of the salesman at Wynn Trim in West Monroe in the early 50's offering to put a "jam-up" top on his 1949 convertible. Blonde Mom asked "what's a "jam-up top?" and salesman walked around the corner to laugh at the dumb blonde.

turns out that the top was the cat's pajamas.

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I don't think it's just a Mississippi thing, but a good old boy, old iron worker, plant baw type of slang. I've heard it a ton, with or without the jelly tight. Jam up can describe anything good, like "Those grits you made this morning Momma are jam up!" The jelly tight usually comes from somebody else in response to somebody saying something is jam up. i.e. Baw #1 says "Man you did a jam up job puttin' those chrome truck nuts on the F250." Baw #2 "Jam up and Jelly Tight, baw."

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I can't jelly my dick in your arse!
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Born and raised in ms and I’ve never heard that

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That's wild, I've been hearing and using it my whole life.

A scenario: A fellow has a very good duck dog.

Example of the "non-jam up" way of getting that point across to another person: "Man, let me tell you, that guy owns an incredibly superb, hard-working, well-trained,delightful-to-watch, etc., duck dog."

Example of the "jam up" way of getting that point across to another person: "Ol baw gotta jam up waterdog."

The example of how we/I've used "jam up" goes on the premise that most Southern dialect operates on the assumption that we ain't got (aka, "we do not have") time to say stuff like, "you guys," or, "incredibly good," so instead we use, "yall," or, "jam up," etc.

My theory as to why we do it is because it's so damn hot down here most of the year, plus we gotta get our shite done so we can get on to more important matters- like grilling in our shorts in January. Nobody wants to sit out in the July heat and listen to a foreman say, "You guys did an incredibly fantastic job and I am not kidding."

A much better, much more efficient way to say it is, "Real talk, y'all did a jam up job."

It (the dialect) may sound stupid to a Yankee, but it's way better than walking around all pissed off at each other and in a hurry because everybody was sitting around all day sounding out the "you all's," "incredibly good's," etc.

So who's the stupid one?

(Answer: Across the contiguous United States, it's 3 out of 5.)

Lot of folks in the pipeline industry use "jam up" to describe a hard working, seasoned employee