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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stacked (stakt),USA pronunciation adj. [Slang.]- Sex and Gender(of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- stack (verb, verbal) + -ed2 1940–45
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: stacked /stækt/ adj - slang
a variant of well-stacked
stack /stæk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- an organized, neat pile or heap:Take the top card from the stack and turn it over.
- Agriculturea large pile of hay, straw, or the like.
- stacks, [plural] a set of shelves for books in a library.
- Buildinga smokestack.
- Informal Termsa great quantity or number: [~ + uncountable noun]a stack of mail.[~ + plural noun]We got a stack of letters yesterday.
- Computinga list, as in a computer, arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved.
v. - to pile, arrange, or place in a stack: [~ + object]She stacked the suitcases on the roof rack.[~ + up + object]He stacked up the books against the wall.[~ + object + up]He stacked them up against the wall.
- to form a stack:[no object]Those logs won't stack; they keep tumbling down.
- to cover with something in stacks:[~ + object* usually: be + ~-ed]The office space was stacked high with old dusty files.
- to arrange or select unfairly in order to force a desired result:[~ + object]to stack a jury against a defendant.
- stack up, [~ + up + against + object] to compare, esp. favorably;
measure up:How do these new minivans stack up against the older ones?
Idioms- Idioms, Games stack the deck:
- Gamesto arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat.
- to manage or arrange events, etc., esp. unfairly, to achieve a desired result:The deck was stacked against him before he even walked in for the interview.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stack (stak),USA pronunciation n. - a more or less orderly pile or heap:a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- Agriculturea large, usually conical, circular, or rectangular pile of hay, straw, or the like.
- Often, stacks. a set of shelves for books or other materials ranged compactly one above the other, as in a library.
- Library Science stacks, the area or part of a library in which the books and other holdings are stored or kept.
- Buildinga number of chimneys or flues grouped together.
- Buildingsmokestack.
- Buildinga vertical duct for conveying warm air from a leader to a register on an upper story of a building.
- Buildinga vertical waste pipe or vent pipe serving a number of floors.
- Informal Termsa great quantity or number.
- Radio and Televisionan antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series.
- Computinga linear list arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved.
- Militarya conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together with stacking swivels.
- AeronauticsAlso called air stack, stackup. [Aviation.]a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land.
- Weights and Measuresan English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m).
- Geologya column of rock isolated from a shore by the action of waves.
- Games
- a given quantity of chips that can be bought at one time, as in poker or other gambling games.
- the quantity of chips held by a player at a given point in a gambling game.
- Slang Terms blow one's stack, to lose one's temper or become uncontrollably angry, esp. to display one's fury, as by shouting:When he came in and saw the mess he blew his stack.
v.t. - to pile, arrange, or place in a stack:to stack hay; to stack rifles.
- to cover or load with something in stacks or piles.
- to arrange or select unfairly in order to force a desired result, esp. to load (a jury, committee, etc.) with members having a biased viewpoint:The lawyer charged that the jury had been stacked against his client.
- Aeronauticsto 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.
v.i. - to be arranged in or form a stack:These chairs stack easily.
- Games stack the deck:
- to arrange cards or a pack of cards so as to cheat:He stacked the deck and won every hand.
- to manipulate events, information, etc., esp. unethically, in order to achieve an advantage or desired result.
- Aeronautics stack up:
- [Aviation.]to control the flight patterns of airplanes waiting to land at an airport so that each circles at a designated altitude.
- [Informal.]to compare;
measure up (often fol. by against):How does the movie stack up against the novel? - [Informal.]to appear plausible or in keeping with the known facts:Your story just doesn't stack up.
- Old Norse stakkr haystack; (verb, verbal) Middle English stakken, derivative of the verb, verbal
- (noun, nominal) Middle English stak 1250–1300
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: stack /stæk/ n - an ordered pile or heap
- a large orderly pile of hay, straw, etc, for storage in the open air
- (often plural) compactly spaced bookshelves, used to house collections of books in an area usually prohibited to library users
- a number of aircraft circling an airport at different altitudes, awaiting their signal to land
- a large amount
- a pile of rifles or muskets in the shape of a cone
- Brit a measure of coal or wood equal to 108 cubic feet
- See chimney stack, smokestack
- a vertical pipe, such as the funnel of a ship or the soil pipe attached to the side of a building
- a high column of rock, esp one isolated from the mainland by the erosive action of the sea
- an area in a computer memory for temporary storage
vb (transitive)- to place in a stack; pile
- to load or fill up with piles of something: to stack a lorry with bricks
- to control (a number of aircraft waiting to land at an airport) so that each flies at a different altitude
- stack the cards ⇒ to prearrange the order of a pack of cards secretly so that the deal will benefit someone
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old Norse stakkr haystack, of Germanic origin; related to Russian stogˈstackable adj ˈstacker n |