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Definition of Pull up stakes
1. Verb. Remove oneself from an association with or participation in. "They pull up stakes the countryside"; "After 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
Generic synonyms: Change
Related verbs: Go Away, Go Forth, Leave
Specialized synonyms: Leave Office, Quit, Resign, Step Down, Drop Out
Definition of Pull up stakes
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To prepare to move one's usually temporary habitation, especially rapidly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Up Stakes
Literary usage of Pull up stakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"To pull up Stakes. To pack up one's furniture or baggage, preparatory to a ...
If this stranger is to receive countenance, then I '11 pull up stakes and ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"pull up stakes. To change one's place of settlement, 1830 Our departed emigrants
pulled up stakes, and returned post haste to the good old town of ..."
3. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"The more energetic form—and by far the older—-is to pull up stakes, the earliest
use of which occurs in a MS. letter (owned by the Hon. ..."
4. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing [pseud.] of Downingville: Away by Seba] [Smith (1834)
"But you needn't think any sich thing, for here I am sticking to Portland like
wax, and I guess I shant pull up stakes agin this one while. ..."
5. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing: Pseud. of Downingville, Away by Seba Smith (1834)
"But you needn't think any sich thing, for here I am sticking to Portland like
wax, and I guess I shant pull up stakes agin this one while. ..."
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