Definitions for HEAP

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HEAP heap

Spelling: [heep]

IPA: /hip/

Heap is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in HEAP (aehp).

Definitions for HEAP

noun

1. a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile:
2. Informal. a great quantity or number; multitude:
3. Slang. an automobile, especially a dilapidated one.

Idioms

1. all of a heap, Informal. overwhelmed with astonishment; amazed: suddenly; abruptly:

verb (used with object)

1. to gather, put, or cast in a heap; pile (often followed by up, on, together, etc.).
2. to accumulate or amass (often followed by up or together):
3. to give, assign, or bestow in great quantity; load (often followed by on or upon):
4. to load, supply, or fill abundantly:

verb (used without object)

1. to become heaped or piled, as sand or snow; rise in a heap or heaps (often followed by up).

Origin of HEAP

before 900; 1925-30 for def 3; Middle English heep, Old English hēap; cognate with Dutch hoop, Old High German houf; akin to German Haufe

Examples for HEAP

And how of the heap of trifles that you can see for yourselves in yonder corner?

Peart and cunnin', but a heap too wise fur you, son; take my steer on that.

"The Denson kids are a heap worse, if she only knew it," he said, and followed her willingly.

Since then, Abilify has risen from the fifth-most-prescribed drug to the top of the heap.

He snatched up the thrown chair and crashed it down onto the head of a charging older black man, who crumpled into a heap.

He made of himself but a cock, set for a while on the world's heap to scratch and pick.

Nestled here, in the southwestern corner of the compound, is a heap of crumbling concrete.

heap praise, not scorn, on physicians who are brave and caring enough to recommend cannabis when appropriate.

This regrettable action will, of course, ignite a racial gang war, leaving a heap of bodies in its wake.

Diablo's no angel, as you've said, Langdon, and this boy made him a heap worse.