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• n  a large number or amount
• n  a collection of objects laid on top of each other
• n  (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• n  a car that is old and unreliable
• v  bestow in large quantities
• v  arrange in stacks
• v  fill to overflow
• r  very much
  thanks heaps

• Upper Silesia is still blighted by strip mines and slag heaps.
• As the boys forage through garbage heaps, get hooked in by child-molesting Fagins and slip into lives of petty or flagrant crime, you'll be reminded of Pixote and City of God and .
• Sweaty, tangled heaps of men and women kiss and fondle each other from head to toe, all the while uttering erotic moans and groans.

• tons
• dozens
• lots
• piles
• scores
• stacks
• loads
• rafts
• slews
• wads
• oodles
• gobs
• scads
• lashings
• pile
• heap
• mound
• agglomerate
• cumulation
• cumulus
• batch
• deal
• flock
• good deal
• great deal
• hatful
• lot
• mass
• mess
• mickle
• mint
• mountain
• muckle
• passel
• peck
• plenty
• pot
• quite a little
• raft
• sight
• slew
• spate
• stack
• tidy sum
• wad
• bus
• jalopy

News & Articles

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• Manual suggests al-Qaeda has surface-to-air missile
  The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class. Except that the students in this case were al-Qaeda fighters in Mali.
  June 12, 2013 - Denver Post
• Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon
  TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class.
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Athletes Are People, Too: The 53 Covers Of People Magazine That Featured Sportsfolk
  Because Sports Illustrated and our Time Inc. sister publication People are old as hell, we’ve both have had heaps of notable persons on the covers of our magazines. (This was a very big deal back when people consumed media in physical formats.) The list of players with enough sports-cultural cache to appear frequently on SI won’t surprise you: Michael Jordan led the charge (as he was wont to do ...
  June 11, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Brian Smith in BBC Sport
  His whole demeanour through that match, the way he addressed our team in the changing room beforehand - he had clearly had heaps of pressure put on by Wales,said Smith. "The way our team was addressed prior to the Wales game took me a...
• Will Power in SI.com
  I'm not really celebrating heaps because it's the start of a long championship,Power said. "I'm not going to go out and celebrate tonight or anything. I just want a good night's sleep, focus on Long Beach because you know, I want to go...