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noun
1.
a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
2.
a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall: a book rack; a spice rack.
3.
a spreading framework set on a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or the like, in large loads.
4.
Pool.
a.
a wooden frame of triangular shape within which the balls are arranged before play.
b.
the balls so arranged: He took aim at the rack.
5.
EXPANDMachinery.
a.
a bar, with teeth on one of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinion (rack and pinion) or the like, as for converting circular into rectilinear motion or vice versa.
b.
a bar having a series of notches engaging with a pawl or the like.
6.
a former instrument of torture consisting of a framework on which a victim was tied, often spread-eagled, by the wrists and ankles, to be slowly stretched by spreading the parts of the framework.
7.
a cause or state of intense suffering of body or mind.
8.
torment; anguish.
9.
violent strain.
10.
a pair of antlers.
11.
COLLAPSESlang. a bed, cot, or bunk: I spent all afternoon in the rack.
verb (used with object)
12.
to torture; distress acutely; torment: His body was racked with pain.
13.
to strain in mental effort: to rack one's brains.
14.
to strain by physical force or violence.
15.
to strain beyond what is normal or usual.
16.
EXPANDto stretch the body of (a person) in torture by means of a rack.
17.
COLLAPSENautical. to seize (two ropes) together side by side.
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Rack up
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
18.
rack out, Slang. to go to bed; go to sleep: I racked out all afternoon.
19.
rack up,
a.
Pool. to put (the balls) in a rack.
b.
Informal. to tally, accumulate, or amass as an achievement or score: The corporation racked up the greatest profits in its history.
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noun
Verb phrase1.
ruin or destruction; wrack.
2.
Idiomrack up, Slang. to wreck, especially a vehicle.
3.
go to rack and ruin, to decay, decline, or become destroyed: His property went to rack and ruin in his absence.
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| rack up | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to accumulate (points) |
| 2. | Also: rack down to adjust the vertical alignment of (the picture from a film projector or telecine machine) so that the upper or lower edges of the frame do not show |
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Word Origin & History
rack
"clouds driven before the wind," c.1300, also "rush of wind, collision, crash," possibly from O.E. racu "cloud," reinforced by O.N. rek "wreckage, jetsam," or by influence of O.E. wræc "something driven." Originally a northern word, perhaps from an unrecorded Scand. cognate of O.E. racu. Often
EXPANDconfused with wrack (q.v.), especially in phrase rack and ruin (1599). The distinction is that rack is "driven clouds;" wrack is "seaweed cast up on shore."
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Slang Dictionary
rack (sth) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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rack up definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
rack up
Accumulate or score, as in Last night's episode of that new sitcom racked up at least fifteen points in the ratings. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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