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stacked adjective [ stakt ]

• (of a number of things) put or arranged in a stack or stacks.
• "the stacked chairs"
• (of a pack of cards) shuffled or arranged dishonestly so as to gain an unfair advantage.
• "you were playing against a stacked deck"
• (of a woman) having large breasts.
• (of a task) placed in a queue for subsequent processing.
• "an operating system that allows for stacked jobs"

stack verb

• arrange (a number of things) in a pile, typically a neat one.
• "she stood up, beginning to stack the plates"
Similar: heap (up), pile (up), make a heap/pile/stack of, assemble, put together, collect, hoard, store, stockpile,
• shuffle or arrange (a pack of cards) dishonestly so as to gain an unfair advantage.
• "I know the cards are stacked"
• (in snowboarding) fall over.
Origin: Middle English: from Old Norse stakkr ‘haystack’, of Germanic origin.


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