loaded

1. (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.Examples: "No funny business; this heater’s loaded!"Synonyms: armed, primed

2. (colloquial) Possessing great wealth.Examples: "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”"; "Is he loaded? “Yeah!” How much is he worth? “I don’t know, but I could probably never be poor again. When I see stuff in the paper like, ‘Oh, he’s worth £20m quid’, I ain’t worth that much. I don’t know what I’ve done with my money. […]”"Synonyms: bow-legged wi' brass, comfortably off, filthy rich, loaded, minted, moneyed, moneybags, of meanscolloquial

3. (slang) Drunk.Examples: "‘Well, I’m loaded right now and I can’t remember where it is right now, tiny country . . . in the west?’"; "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, bedrunkenslang

4. (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.Examples: "It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs."

5. (dice games, also figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.Examples: "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."; "The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the more loaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win."Synonyms: fixed, rigged, weightedalsofiguratively

6. (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.Examples: "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, felt loaded as well."Synonyms: leading