stack up
To put into a stack.
Stack up the boxes.
noun
A pile.
But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.
A pile.
Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
A pile.
There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;
A pile.
A pile.
She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
“We said, 'Maybe we could come up with a couple of characters doing jokes,'” Correll recalled in 1972. “We had a whole stack of jokes we used to do in these home talent shows
verb
To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
Please stack those chairs in the corner.
James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.
To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.
This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
To arrange or fix to obtain an advantage; to deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
to be stacked against (someone)
The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
To crash; to fall.
Jim couldn't make it today as he stacked his car on the weekend.
1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43, Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I′ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.
name
A surname.