Definition of "loaded"

With regard to France and Holland, therefore, I muſt think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppreſſed with Taxes and Exciſes than the People of this Kingdom ;

1737, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 7, page 780

[…] the fever began to assume a low type ; the tongue became loaded with a thick brown crust ; […] .

1812, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 8, page 118

[…] and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.

1888, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter (translator), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture

What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, more loaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.

1913, Catholic Encyclopedia, Africa

What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.

2011, Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy, page 15

She told me that her Dad was loaded / I said "In that case, I'll have rum and coca-cola"

1995, “Common People”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp

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. […] ”

2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian‎

And my God, doesn’t it feel good? For a few moments to think of the country as the place of sacred ointments and special spoons, grand cathedrals and epically wealthy, exquisitely dressed people. In that moment we can see our own country in their image: a country that is sober, benign and loaded.

2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian‎

‘Well, I’m loaded right now and I can’t remember where it is right now, tiny country . . in the west?’

2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, page 141

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.

1996, Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex, page 49

If you add to this the fact that the magistrate and the police sergeant are close friends, then the dice could not have been more loaded against my client.

1997, Joe Slovo, Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography, page 80

Horace has been crippled by being set off against the 'sincerity' and 'spontaneity' of these two; when it comes to the Greek lyricists, the dice are even more loaded against our poet, for the Greeks have not only spontaneity and sincerity on their side, but a phalanx of yet more formidable allies […] .

2009, Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes, page 224

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.

2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian‎

The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.

2003, L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style, page 30