stack : Idioms & Phrases


blow one's stack

  • verb get very angry and fly into a rage
    hit the roof; flip one's lid; have kittens; fly off the handle; go ballistic; flip one's wig; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; lose one's temper; combust; blow up; blow a fuse; have a fit.
    • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
    • Spam makes me go ballistic
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harry stack sullivan

  • noun United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)
    Sullivan.
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push-down stack

  • noun a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO)
    stack; push-down list.
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stack away

  • verb keep or lay aside for future use
    salt away; put in; hive away; stash away; lay in; store.
    • store grain for the winter
    • The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
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Stack of arms

  • (Mil.), a number of muskets or rifles set up together, with the bayonets crossing one another, forming a sort of conical self-supporting pile.
Webster 1913

stack up

  • verb arrange into piles or stacks
    heap up; pile up.
    • She piled up her books in my living room
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stack-guard

Stack"-guard` noun
Definitions
  1. A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.
Webster 1913

stacked heel

  • noun a heel made of many layers of leather
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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.
Webster 1913