Stack

From Old Norse stakkr; compare Icelandic stakkur, Swedish stacka, Danish stakke.

Full definition of stack

(plural stacks)

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

Francis BaconAgainst every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.

1910, w, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.

(computing) A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
(computing) A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

(geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
(library)(library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
(figuratively) A large amount of an object.

(military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
(architecture) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
(architecture) A vertical drainpipe.
(Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
(bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

2013, January 22, Phil McNulty, Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4), 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.
2013, Catherine Clabby, Focus on Everything, Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus....A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

Please stack those chairs in the corner.
(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
(transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
(transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
The Government was accused of stacking the parliamentary committee.
(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

1975, Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man, Outback Press, page 43,Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. â€˜Mum, Iâ€²ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?â€™, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.
1984, Jack Hibberd, A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays, page 80,MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.
2002, Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt, page 19,Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.
2007, Martin Chipperfield, slut talk, Night Falling, 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,oh shit danny, i stacked the car
ran into sally, an old school friend
you stacked the car?
so now i need this sallyâ€²s address
for the insurance, danny says