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bilby commented on the word stacks on
Australianism for a children's game where people pile on top of one another. From 'stacks on the mill'.
If you've seen what happens at a baseball game when a player hits a walkoff home run then his teammates all jump on him when he gets to home plate, that's probably a comparable kind of situation...maybe the American equivalent is dogpile?
Typically in the playground it would just happen. Someone would fall over, someone else would yell out 'Stacks on Jamie!' and all the nearby kids would pile on.
Used conversationally to note a situation where people are rapidly joining a movement or ganging up. eg.
Person A: Hey, C has a big butt!
Person B: Yep, mountain of lard.
Person C: What is this, stacks on?!
February 10, 2016
bilby commented on the word stacks on
Australian National Dictionary Online has this:
stacks on the mill
In sporting contexts, a pile-up of players, usually on top of the ball. It was originally a schoolyard game, a call to children to pile in a heap on top of someone. The full cry in the Australian children’s game was ‘stacks on the mill, more on still!’ The phrase is now sometimes abbreviated to stacks on. ‘Stacks’ is a corruption of ‘sacks’, from an older British game ‘more sacks to the mill’.
February 10, 2016
bilby commented on the word stacks on
Further note. Seeing as my childhood days are a fair bit distant, I have no idea whether young Australian kids still say this. And it's not an expression I've heard much in general usage this century.
February 10, 2016
bilby commented on the word stacks on
How old are you bilby?
February 10, 2016
bilby commented on the word stacks on
Old enough to rendezvous with vanderpink you whippersnapper.
February 10, 2016