stack n.1
1. (orig. US) a large amount of money; something valuable, e.g. a piece of jewellery.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Artie (1963) 10: Then this boy that was keepin’ tab on his stack all the time, he had to think it all over and have another talk with himself and skin his cards three or four times, and then he put in. | |
| Shorty McCabe 38: He touched ’em up for a stack or two, but almost went to sleep over it. | |
| Help Wanted 45: It’s just a case of mutual bluff and the one with the biggest stack will win. | |
| Hand-made Fables 180: The Family threw three individual Fits when the Producer showed them his Stack and warned them to get braced for a rattling good Bump. | |
| Sudden 73: Yu c’n bet a stack on it. | |
| USA Confidential 184: He always carries a stack of 500 G notes which he fondles as he talks. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Boss of Britain’s Underworld 7: He’s just a shrewd business-man who’s made a stack and had kept it. | |
| in Sweet Daddy 12: I got [...] good stacks – hustle me plenty of green stuff. | |
| Close Pursuit (1988) 100: [of a bangle] That’s gold. That’s a stack. Check it out, man. [Ibid.] 119: Jewboys got a stack on them. Wearing belts and shit. Where’s the stack, Jewboy? | |
| ‘Pump Pump’ 🎵 Cuz back in the days, on the side where it’s at / A nigga had to have a fat stack. | |
| ‘Whatever You Like’ 🎵 Anytime you want to pick up the telephone / You know it ain't nothin' to drop a couple stacks on you. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 1: So, Chuck drops his stack! | |
 | ‘Low But Bait’ 🎵 I want my stack fat like 100 books. |
2. (US) a large amount.
| Psmith in the City (1993) 140: Ballard or Willis might have got a stack of runs on this wicket. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 37: [O]n Cup days there was always a stack of talent parading the lawns . | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 169: I got a stack of money, yeah, but it cost a lot to live in Honeypot Hill. | |
| Opal Country 336: ‘[G]et paid a stack. Retire at thirty’. |
3. (drugs) a pack of marijuana cigarettes.
| ‘Narcotic Argot Along the Mexican Border’ in AS XXX:2 88: STACK, n. A package of marijuana cigarettes; one cigarette or one dose of one ounce is a ‘piece’ or a ‘stick’. | |
| Underground Dict. (1972). | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 20: Stack — Marijuana. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
1. (also flip one’s stack, snap…) to lose control, to lose one’s temper.
| You Chirped a Chinful!! n.p.: Blew His Stack: Got excited and made mistakes. | |
| Battle Cry (1964) 79: I’ve got to do something or I’ll blow my stack. | |
| Lead With Your Left (1958) 39: Here you snapped your stack. When are you going to grow up, Dave? | |
| Teen-Age Mafia 59: He’d better forget that, toss it out of the window before he flipped his stack. | |
| Mute Witness (1997) 44: He’ll have a fit. He’ll really blow his stack. | |
| Blue Movie (1974) 181: One of the boogs blows his stack, goes for a broad — pow, you blast him! | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Vancouver Sun (BC) 30 Jan. 15/5: The reason he flipped his stack was the discovery [etc]. | |
| Different Seasons (1995) 477: He told Terry that maybe he should think about another career, and that was when Teddy blew his stack. | |
| Boys from Binjiwunyawunya 111: All they did was [...] do everything they could to goad Les into blowing his stack. | |
| Street Talk 2 187: She blew her stack when I told her the news. | |
| Observer Mag. 6 May 70: She didn’t call. When we eventually talked, I blew my stack. | |
| L.A. Times 14 June D2/2: Robsinon blows his stack, swearing at me. | |
| ‘Extras’ in ThugLit Nov.-Dec. [ebook] He blew his stack. Walked off the soundstage. |
2. to be emotionally overwhelmed.
| Vanity Row 128: ‘Getting drunk, swearing and carrying on in the club, like some downstate hayneck at a plumber’s convention . . . you wouldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it at first. It was like he’d blown his stack’. | |
| ‘The Be-Bop Santa Claus’ 🎵 As he stood digging Pops, who was blowing his stack. | |
| Teen-Age Mafia 82: So why was he blowing his stack tonight, with pictures of [...] Mom flashing in his mind? |
3. to achieve orgasm.
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 169: My cock was wired. I could blow my stack any second. |
to make someone lose their temper.
| Pimp 84: You blew my stack last night. |
see under swear v.