loaded

Burdened by some heavy load; packed.

Adjective

  1. Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
    • Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
    • 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...
    • […]the fever began to assume a low type ; the tongue became loaded with a thick brown crust ;[…]. - 1812, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 8, page 118:

    Synonyms: crammed laden packed stuffed

  2. Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
    • No funny business; this heater’s loaded!

    Synonyms: armed primed

  3. Possessing great wealth.
    • He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
    • She told me that her Dad was loaded / I said “In that case, I’ll have rum and coca-cola” - 1995, “Common People”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:
    • Is he loaded? “Yeah!” How much is he worth? “I don’t know, but I could probably never be poor again. When I see stuff in the paper like, ‘Oh, he’s worth £20m quid’, I ain’t worth that much. I don’t know what I’ve done...

    Synonyms: bow-legged wi' brass comfortably off filthy rich loaded minted moneyed moneybags of means oofy rich rich as Croesus rolling rolling in dough rolling in it upper crust wealthy well-endowed well-heeled well off well-to-do

  4. Drunk.
    • ‘Well, I’m loaded right now and I can’t remember where it is right now, tiny country . . . in the west?’ - 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 141:
    • By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded.

    Synonyms: Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind blind drunk blitzed blocked

  5. 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.
  6. Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
    • He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
    • They played awhile to Corinius’s great content, for at every throw he won and the other’s purse waxed light. But at this eleventh stanza the son of Corund cried out that the dice of Corinius were loaded. - 1922, E[ric]...
    • The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the more loaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win. - 1996, Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex, page 49:

    Synonyms: fixed rigged weighted

  7. Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
    • That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
    • At a press conference held in a Valencia hotel two weeks ago, Jesús “Suso” García Pitarch was asked why Peter Lim had bought the city’s football team in the first place. It was a loaded question, one supporters have...

    Synonyms: leading

  8. Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
    • "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
    • The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not. - 2003, L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity...

    Synonyms: charged freighted pregnant

  9. Equipped with numerous options.
    • She went all out; her new car is loaded.

    Synonyms: deluxe

  10. Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
    • loaded fries
    • loaded potato wedges
  11. Weighted with lead or similar.
    • a loaded cane or whip

Origin

Etymology tree English load English -ed English loaded From load + -ed.

Forms

more loaded most loaded

Derived

bases loaded coloaded front-loaded fully-loaded loaded dice loaded for bear loaded language loaded march loaded question loaded word locked and loaded nonloaded spring-loaded spring-loaded camming device spring-loaded mode underloaded unloaded

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of load