loaded
About 12.36 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb simple past and past participle of load
- adjective Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
- adjective Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
No funny business; this heater’s loaded!
- adjective Possessing great wealth.
He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
- adjective Drunk.
By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded.
- adjective Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
- adjective Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
- adjective Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
Similar words
laden tight full live stiff crocked ladened tiddley pixilated affluent
Often followed by
with into and on in the onto by to
Word family
loaded question loaded questions
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