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stacked, ppl. a.|stækt| [f. stack v. + -ed1.] 1. Piled together.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. Gloss., Stacked, horsed. 1870Standard 12 Dec., Those battalions that still remained and paced briskly to and fro by their stacked arms to warm themselves. 1905Treves Other Side of Lantern ii. vii. (1906) 65 A place for stacked spears. 2. Piled into a ‘stack’ (senses 2, 3).
1901Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 2/1 Clearings with stacked-up wood. 1908M. Johnston Lewis Rand i. 10 Stretches of stacked corn appeared like tented plains. 3. Piled with goods.
1908Academy 8 Feb. 441/1 A stacked trolley obsessed the tram-lines. 4. Of a female figure: well-rounded and attractively shaped. Also of a woman: having a prominent bosom. Similarly, stacked up, well-stacked. U.S. slang (as a term of male approbation).
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §37/14 Shapely,..stacked up nicely. 1952Esquire June 131/2 The singer ain't a bad-looking broad, she's well-stacked and sort of young. 1954Amer. Speech XXIX. 234 There is a present fashion of referring to an attractively proportioned woman as well stacked, or simply, stacked, period. 1965Liberator (N.Y.) Aug. 22/3 Two stacked broads approached. Everyone attained a hip position. It consisted of pulling pants high, rolling the Hi-Lo collar, [etc.]. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places v. 154 What about your wife?.. Is she well-stacked? 1981‘D. Shannon’ Murder Most Strange vii. 147 A cute little blond chick..really stacked. 5. stacked head, in a tape recorder: a head (head n.1 11 g) in which the gaps corresponding to the tracks in multi-channel recording are located one above another.
1954C. A. Tuthill How to service Tape Recorders iv. 45 Typical individual or stacked heads, currently being released by The Brush Development Company, are cast in synthetic resin. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 267 For stereo, the first and third tracks are recorded at the same time, using a stacked head (one with both gaps in line). a1975Tape Talk (Sony Corporation) 3 In-line heads, arrangement of stereophonic heads on a tape recorder in which the head gaps are mounted one directly above the other. Also called ‘stacked heads’. 6. stacked heel, a heel built by stacking or appearing to stack thin layers of wood or other material. Also stacked-heeled adj.
[1960Harper's Bazaar Aug. 24 Stack-heeled moccasin in deep brown leather.] 1960Sunday Express 11 Sept. 15/4 In Paris Dior..showed Cuban ‘stacked’ heels. 1964in Hamblett & Deverson Generation X 13 Mod girls have a short back-and-sides hair cut like men used to, wear shift-style dresses with round collars... Stacked heeled shoes, white stockings. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 177 She turned, pivoting on one stacked heel. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) v. 62 Comfortable loafers with low stacked heels in colors to match wool⁓knit pants and jackets. 7. stacked deck, a pack of cards that has cheatingly been set in a prearranged order; also fig. Hence more widely (and without the implication of dishonesty), of odds. Cf. stack v.1 6 a. Chiefly U.S.
1964A. Wykes Gambling 329/1 Stacked deck, a pack of cards that a cheat has prearranged for his own benefit. 1971P. O'Donnell Impossible Virgin vii. 144 They worked alone, without hirelings, and so often went in against stacked odds. 1976Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. h3/1 The Minnesota Vikings, shooting to become the first National Football League team to make four Super Bowl appearances, will be playing with a stacked deck Sunday. 1978E. Tidyman Table Stakes ii. vii. 345 You played the game with a stacked deck. You had his daughter, his trust, and his face.
Senses 6, 7 in Dict. become 7, 8. Add: 6. Computing. Of a task: placed in a queue for subsequent processing. Of (a stream of) data, etc.: consisting of or stored in a stack.
1958Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery Oct. 19 A sizeable subgroup is writing a common monitor system which..will run stacked jobs of all kinds in three distinct phases. 1969P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 483 An operating system that allows for stacked jobs has provision for recognizing and acting on end-of-job/start-of-next-job indications in the input. 1981Computing Surveys XIII. 359/1 Means must be provided to recognize whether a stacked quantity is a pointer. 1989Rhythm Apr. 54/3 The Impulse is a..trigger to MIDI interface..featuring..stacked MIDI note numbers. |