Words nearby stack
staccato mark, staccato speech, stacey, stachys, stacia, stack, stack the cards, stack up, stackable, stacked, stacked heel
Idioms for stack
- 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., especially unethically, in order to achieve an advantage or desired result.
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.
stack the deck,
Origin of stack
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English stak < Old Norse stakkr haystack; (v.) Middle English stakken, derivative of the v.
OTHER WORDS FROM stack
stack·er, nounstack·less, adjectivere·stack, verb (used with object)un·stack, adjective, verbDictionary.com Unabridged
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British Dictionary definitions for blow one's stack
stack
/ (stæk) /
noun
verb (tr)
Derived forms of stack
stackable, adjectivestacker, nounWord Origin for stack
C13: from Old Norse stakkr haystack, of Germanic origin; related to Russian stog
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Scientific definitions for blow one's stack
stack
[ stăk ]
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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Idioms and Phrases with blow one's stack
stack
In addition to the idioms beginning with stack
- stack the cards
- stack up
also see:
- blow one's top (stack)
- cards are stacked
- needle in a haystack
- swear on a stack of bibles
;.
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