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swear on a stack en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of swear on a stack of Bibles.
    • “Good enough for me, and I'm no snitch. You can come home with a necklace of Johnsons if that's what it takes to get what we need, and I'll swear on a stack that I didn't see a thing.” 2019 May 14, Ali Vali, Stormy Seas, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN, →OCLC:
    • “And give it a damn good Hoover down as well. The dust particles you'll suck out her tear-away top will match the must from the back room over at Benny's and I've got a crowd of standing room only who'll swear on a stack that our only dirty deed went down over there.” 2003 September 14, Robert Bennett, The New Roman Empire, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
swearing on a stack Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sworn on a stack Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
swears on a stack Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
swore on a stack Tense=Past lexicographic