Loaded

/ˈləʊ.dəd/ · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of load.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of load
2. Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
3. (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
4. (colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
5. (slang) Drunk.
6. (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
7. (dice games, also figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
8. (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.

Example Sentences

Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.

1888, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter (translator), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture, […] and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.

With regard to France and Holland, therefore, I muſt think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppreſſed with Taxes and Exciſes than the People of this Kingdom ;

[…]the fever began to assume a low type ; the tongue became loaded with a thick brown crust ;[…].

What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, more loaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.

What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.

No funny business; this heater’s loaded!

He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.

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• more loaded
• most loaded

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