Stake a claim


Also, stake out a claim. Indicate something as one’s own, as in I’m staking a claim to the drumstick, or She staked out a claim for herself in the insurance business. This term, dating from the mid-1800s, originally meant “register a claim to land by marking it with stakes.” It was being used figuratively by the late 1800s.

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  • Stake-body

    noun 1. an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.

  • Staked-plain

    noun 1. Llano Estacado. Llano Estacado [lah-noh es-tuh-kah-doh, lan-oh] /ˈlɑ noʊ ˌɛs təˈkɑ doʊ, ˈlæn oʊ/ noun 1. a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level. Llano Estacado /ˈlɑːnəʊ ˌɛstəˈkɑːdəʊ/ noun 1. the S part of the Great […]

  • Stage-diving

    noun the act of jumping from a stage into the audence during a performance, esp. at concerts

  • Stage-dive

    verb -dives, -diving, -dived (US) -dove 1. (intransitive) to jump off the stage at a concert onto the crowd below


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