make a wad

Martin, meanwhile, demonstrates in typical absurdist fashion how to make a wad of paper out of simple items you might find around the home.

Tear a strip or two off the bottom of your petticoat, then sew the ends together to make a long bandage, and roll a little piece, so as to make a wad about an inch wide.

This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing that he paid in five-dollar bills, "to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry."

"Toward the end," recalled Bing, "I had him paid in five-dollar bills, to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry."

Why, that would make a wad of bills squirm out of the toe of a stockin'!