Definitions for Heaps

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Heaps heap

Spelling: [heep]

IPA: /hip/

Heaps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Heaps (aehps).

Definitions for Heaps

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 Heaps

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 Heaps

They were piled in heaps inside homes, stored in overflowing baskets, and stacked in pyramids as high as children.

He is often intemperate in tone—Morris "heaps deceit upon deceit"—which almost always is a sign of a weak argument.

When you let him in he curls into heaps of joy, and fairly stands on his head sometimes.

It is a joy to look upon the heaps of slain when all is done.

The embassy occupies but one of them, where it heaps up its dusty archives.

Yes, you may be saying to yourself, “I vaguely recall that name from heaps of media coverage several lifetimes ago.”

Where there had been shops and hotels, there were now heaps of rubble and calcined bricks.

Of course it did not do any good, and he knew that, but he considered it was heaps of satisfaction.

Stacked next to his Catalogue of Expert Witnesses are heaps of anti-heavy-metal pamphlets.

The heaps of gifted and hand-me-down pink frilly clothes and accessories grew far faster than we were able to sort and store them.