Word Study
pull up stakes
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb pull up stakes has 1 sense
- pull up stakes(v = verb.social) depart, leave - remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" is one way to change
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