heap
Other forms: heaps; heaped; heaping
A great big pile of something is a heap. Your sloppy brother might keep all of his clothes in a heap on his bedroom floor.
A heap can be a literal mound of things — a heap of money in your piggy bank, or a heap of wet towels beside the pool — or it can be a figurative pile. For example, you might worry that if you're caught eating your roommate's pizza you'll be in a heap of trouble. Heap is also a verb, as when you heap compliments on your best friend. Since 1924 heap has also meant "junky old car."
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a collection of objects laid on top of each othersynonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, piletypes:compost heap, compost pilea heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compostscrapheappile of discarded metalshocka pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a fieldslagheappile of waste matter from coal mining etcstackan orderly pilewoodpilea pile or stack of wood to be used for fuelstockpilea storage pile accumulated for future usetype of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extentsynonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadtypes:haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservationtype of:large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantityan indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
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arrange in stacks
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fill to overflow
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bestow in large quantities“He heaped him with work”“She heaped scorn upon him”type of:givetransfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
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a car that is old and unreliabletype of:auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcara motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion enginedysphemisman offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one
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