stacked

[ stakt ]

/ stækt /

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adjective Slang.

(of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.

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Origin of stacked

1940–45; stack (v.) + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM stacked

un·stacked, adjectivewell-stacked, adjective

Words nearby stacked

stacia, stack, stack the cards, stack up, stackable, stacked, stacked heel, stacking, stacking swivel, stacking truck, stackup

Definition for stacked (2 of 2)

stack

[ stak ]

/ stæk /

noun

a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.

a 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.

stacks, the area or part of a library in which the books and other holdings are stored or kept.

a number of chimneys or flues grouped together.

smokestack.

a vertical duct for conveying warm air from a leader to a register on an upper story of a building.

a vertical waste pipe or vent pipe serving a number of floors.

Informal. a great quantity or number.

Radio. an antenna consisting of a number of components connected in a substantially vertical series.

Computers. a linear list arranged so that the last item stored is the first item retrieved.

Military. a conical, free-standing group of three rifles placed on their butts and hooked together with stacking swivels.

Also called air stack, stackup. Aviation. a group of airplanes circling over an airport awaiting their turns to land.

an English measure for coal and wood, equal to 108 cubic feet (3 cu. m).

Geology. a 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.

verb (used with object)

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, 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.

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)

to be arranged in or form a stack: These chairs stack easily.

Verb Phrases

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 followed 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.

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, verb

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Example sentences from the Web for stacked

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As for the paintings that came from the most important collections in Paris, these were stacked up at the German Embassy.
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Pallets of produce and food parcels are stacked shoulder-high.
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Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.
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Emma dried her dishes as carefully as she had washed them and stacked them in the cupboard.
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Stacked against the outside wall were hundreds of freshly printed newspapers ready for distribution.
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The third and fourth were open cars, stacked high with machinery.
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One morning, at drill-call, the men in my own company marched out and stacked their arms, refusing to drill.
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The cotton has been picked and stacked for drying on the tops of the sheds.
The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851|Various

British Dictionary definitions for stacked (1 of 2)

stacked

/ (stækt) /

adjective

slang a variant of well-stacked

British Dictionary definitions for stacked (2 of 2)

stack

/ (stæk) /

noun

an ordered pile or heap

a large orderly pile of hay, straw, etc, for storage in the open air

(often plural) library science 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 amounta stack of work

military a pile of rifles or muskets in the shape of a cone

British 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

verb (tr)

to place in a stack; pileto stack bricks on a lorry

to load or fill up with piles of somethingto 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

Derived forms of stack

stackable, adjectivestacker, noun

Word Origin for stack

C13: from Old Norse stakkr haystack, of Germanic origin; related to Russian stog

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Scientific definitions for stacked

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.

Idioms and Phrases with stacked

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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