stacked
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adjective Slang.
(of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
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noun
1.
a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
2.
a large, usually conical, circular, or rectangular pile of hay, straw, or the like.
3.
Often, stacks. a set of shelves for books or other materials ranged compactly one above the other, as in a library.
4.
stacks, the area or part of a library in which the books and other holdings are stored or kept.
5.
a number of chimneys or flues grouped together.
6.
7.
a vertical duct for conveying warm air from a leader to a register on an upper story of a building.
8.
a vertical waste pipe or vent pipe serving a number of floors.
9.
Informal. a great quantity or number.
10.
Radio. an antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series.
11.
Computers. a linear list arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved.
12.
Military. a conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together with stacking swivels.
13.
Also called air stack, stackup. Aviation. a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land.
14.
an English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m).
15.
Geology. a column of rock isolated from a shore by the action of waves.
16.
Games.
a.
a given quantity of chips that can be bought at one time, as in poker or other gambling games.
b.
the quantity of chips held by a player at a given point in a gambling game.
verb (used with object)
17.
to pile, arrange, or place in a stack: to stack hay; to stack rifles.
18.
to cover or load with something in stacks or piles.
19.
to arrange or select unfairly in order to force a desired result, especially to load (a jury, committee, etc.) with members having a biased viewpoint: The lawyer charged that the jury had been stacked against his client.
20.
to keep (a number of incoming airplanes) flying nearly circular patterns at various altitudes over an airport where crowded runways, a low ceiling, or other temporary conditions prevent immediate landings.
verb (used without object)
Verb phrases 21.
to be arranged in or form a stack: These chairs stack easily.
22.
Idioms stack up,
a.
Aviation. to control the flight patterns of airplanes waiting to land at an airport so that each circles at a designated altitude.
b.
Informal. to compare; measure up (often followed by against ): How does the movie stack up against the novel?
c.
Informal. to appear plausible or in keeping with the known facts: Your story just doesn't stack up.
23.
blow one's stack, Slang. to lose one's temper or become uncontrollably angry, especially to display one's fury, as by shouting: When he came in and saw the mess he blew his stack.
24.
stack the deck,
a.
to arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat: He stacked the deck and won every hand.
b.
to manipulate events, information, etc., especially unethically, in order to achieve an advantage or desired result.
Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English stak < Old Norse stakkr haystack; (v.) Middle English stakken, derivative of the v.
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English stak < Old Norse stakkr haystack; (v.) Middle English stakken, derivative of the v.
Related forms
stack·er, noun
stack·less, adjective
re·stack, verb (used with object)
un·stack, adjective, verb
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World English Dictionary
stack (stæk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an ordered pile or heap |
| 2. | a large orderly pile of hay, straw, etc, for storage in the open air |
| 3. | (often plural) library science compactly spaced bookshelves, used to house collections of books in an area usually prohibited to library users |
| 4. | a number of aircraft circling an airport at different altitudes, awaiting their signal to land |
| 5. | a large amount: a stack of work |
| 6. | military a pile of rifles or muskets in the shape of a cone |
| 7. | (Brit) a measure of coal or wood equal to 108 cubic feet |
| 8. | chimney stack See smokestack |
| 9. | a vertical pipe, such as the funnel of a ship or the soil pipe attached to the side of a building |
| 10. | a high column of rock, esp one isolated from the mainland by the erosive action of the sea |
| 11. | an area in a computer memory for temporary storage |
| —vb | |
| 12. | to place in a stack; pile: to stack bricks on a lorry |
| 13. | to load or fill up with piles of something: to stack a lorry with bricks |
| 14. | to control (a number of aircraft waiting to land at an airport) so that each flies at a different altitude |
| 15. | stack the cards to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone |
| [C13: from Old Norse stakkr haystack, of Germanic origin; related to Russian stog] | |
| 'stackable | |
| —adj | |
| 'stacker | |
| —n | |
| stacked (stækt) | |
| —adj | |
| slang a variant of well-stacked | |
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Word Origin & History
stack
c.1300, "pile, heap, or group of things," from O.N. stakkr "haystack" (cf. Dan. stak, Swed. stack "heap, stack"), from P.Gmc. *stakkoz, from PIE *stognos- (cf. O.C.S. stogu "heap," Rus. stog "haystack," Lith. stokas "pillar"), from base *steg- "pole, stick" (see stake (n.)).
Meaning "set of shelves on which books are set out" is from 1879. Used of the chimneys of factories, locomotives, etc., since 1825. The verb is attested from early 14c., "to pile up grain;" the meaning "arrange unfairly" (in stack the deck) is first recorded 1825. Stack up "compare against" is 1903, from notion of piles of poker chips (1896). Stacked, of women's bodies, "well-built in a sexual sense" is from 1942.
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Science Dictionary
| stack (stāk) Pronunciation Key
An isolated, columnar mass or island of rock along a coastal cliff. Stacks are formed by the erosion of cliffs through wave action and are larger than chimneys. |
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
While scientific papers are critiqued by juries of major journals, those juries can be stacked.
The store is stacked to the ceiling with boxed versions of much of the software for sale down below.
Along the hallways, boxes of supplies lie stacked in orderly rows.
Additionally, textbooks are often stacked on warehouse shelving where it is difficult to locate the textbooks that one needs.
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