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heaps
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun heaps has 1 sense
- heaps(n = noun.quantity) dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads - a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers" is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
Adverbial heaps has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
heaps, n.
a large quantity. See heap, senses 2 and 3; as, he made heaps of money in the stock market. [WordNet 1.5]
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