stack

UK /stæk/ US /stæk/
noun 5verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A pile.

But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack.

2

A pile.

Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.

3

A pile.

There was againſt euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a Mans Height;

4

A pile.

5

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

1

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.

2

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!

3

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.

4

To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!

5

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

1

A surname.

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