loaded

Adjective

loaded (comparative more loaded, superlative most loaded)

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 Kingdom ;1737, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 7, page 780

   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. (colloquial) 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

   Synonyms:

   bow-legged wi' brass, comfortably off, filthy rich, fat, minted, moneyed, moneybags, of means, oofy, rich

4. (slang) 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

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. (also, figuratively) 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] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 32–33

   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 pondered often over the last couple of years, and the answer, or the lack of one...2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian

   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 in Theory and Style, page 30

   Synonyms:

   charged, freighted, pregnant

9. (especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
   • She went all out; her new car is loaded.

   Synonyms:

   deluxe

10. (colloquial) 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