Crossword clues for stacked
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stack \Stack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stacked (st[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stacking.] [Cf. Sw. stacka, Dan. stakke. See Stack, n.]
To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
Specifically: To place in a vertical arrangement so that each item in a pile is resting on top of another item in the pile, except for the bottom item; as, to stack the papers neatly on the desk; to stack the bricks.
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To select or arrange dishonestly so as to achieve an unfair advantage; as, to stack a deck of cards; to stack a jury with persons prejudiced against the defendant.
To stack arms (Mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, of hay, past participle adjective from stack (v.). Of women, "well-built physically; curved in a way considered sexually desirable," 1942.
Wiktionary
1 arranged in a stack 2 (context slang English) Having large breasts 3 (context slang English) unfairly constructed, as a stacked deck of cards. v
(en-past of: stack)
WordNet
adj. arranged in a stack
well or attractively formed with respect to physique [syn: built(p), stacked(p), well-stacked]
Wikipedia
Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18, 2006, Stacked was canceled, leaving five episodes unaired in the United States. The last episode aired on January 11, 2006. The five unaired episodes have since been aired in reruns in the United Kingdom, Israel, and Switzerland.
Stacked is a 2008 British television film directed by Jennifer Perrot and written and created by Bryony Ive as her first drama commission, and the first drama film to be created through 4Talent Scotland's television pilot competition. The film stars Karen Gillan, Rebecca Reid, and Eleanor Bird.
Usage examples of "stacked".
Granny Aching died, the men had cut and lifted the turf around the hut and stacked it neatly some way away.
A clothes airer stacked with damp washing, a pram and a bed were crammed up against a cot from which he swiftly averted his attention.
Almost choking, Ben wrenched himself free, and as he staggered back against the partition on which the tin stuff was stacked Alee flung up the counter flap and was on him again.
The molds and deckles are neatly stacked, coils of armature wire sit untouched by the table.
The bottom of the basket bumped, then acted as a break as the balloon, pulled by the slight breeze, rushed on up the slope, so of course the basket tipped on to its side and we were dragged for many bone-shaking yards while the actual ground came nearer and nearer our heads until finally the basket was grounded on its beam ends and we were all stacked as if in pigeonholes above it.
For the first time in three years neat tubes of aureomycin ointment for udder sores were neatly stacked in the old space on the shelf.
These they took to Botts, who made a pile of stones and stacked the turf clumsily on wooden frames cut by Harry.
The audience would not only be full of celebs but also stacked to the rafters with casting agents, national theatre directors, top fringe theatre directors, journalists and critics.
While Grace stacked the dishwasher, Cig built a fire in the big living room fireplace.
Miss Holly was hovering in the background supervising the departure, clucking with admiration at the spotless kitchen, thanking them for the gifts of food covered with cling film and neatly stacked in the hotel refrigerator.
Stacked in coffinless indignity in the hold by their pitiful shipmates?
It starts out as a pallet of stacked cowhides cut so clean off the animals that they look like they could be put back on like snug jackets.
Less than ten yards from where I stood, a wide, flat spur of tawny rock extended out from the Mogado side of the bank some twenty-five feet over the river, and upon it, slithering atop one another, stacked almost to the height of a man, were dozens of crocs, perhaps more than a hundred.
Behind the grimy, soot-darkened facades of their houses were sumptuous palaces of fragrant cypress and cryptomeria wood, and white-plastered storehouses stacked to the rafters with chests of silks and lacquer ware and porcelain.
The gunslinger caught it, tossed it to Cullum, then went to the fireplace and dropped the last shred of his cigarette onto the little pile of logs stacked on the grate.