rack
• shelf; frame or pole on which items are hung; trough for animal feed
• torment, torture
• a rack is a piece of equipment, usually with bars, hooks, or pegs, used for holding things or hanging things on.
• if someone is racked by something, it causes them great suffering or pain; a literary use.
• to rack your brains: see brain.
rack and ruin
• ruins, debris; complete destruction
rack off
• (offensive australian slang) go away!, get out of here!, get lost!
rack one's brains
• think really hard, try very hard to remember something
rack rate
• run of the house, full price that a hotel charges for a room prior to giving any discount
rack rent
• excessively high rent
rack up
• collect, gather
rack up points
• collect points, gather points
baggage rack
• shelf of metal bars intended to hold suitcases (on top of a car, etc.)
bomb rack
• device for carrying bombs in an aircraft
on the rack
• suffering, tortured
roof rack
• a roof-rack is a metal frame that is fixed on top of a car and used for carrying large objects.
spice rack
• a shelf used for holding containers of spice
toast rack
• a toast rack is an object that is designed to hold pieces of toast in an upright position and separate from each other ready for people to eat.
towel rack
• pole on which ...
