stack the cards

verb

To surreptitiously arrange something in order to gain an unfair advantage, or to alter an outcome

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Meanings

verbstack the cards (third-person singular simple present stacks the cards, present participle stacking the cards, simple past and past participle stacked the cards)

present singular third person stacks the cards · participle present stacking the cards · participle past stacked the cards · past stacked the cards

  1. idiomaticTo surreptitiously arrange something in order to gain an unfair advantage, or to alter an outcome
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