Usually means: Leave a place permanently; relocate.
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  1. pull up stakes: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pull up stakes: Merriam-Webster
  3. pull up stakes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pull up stakes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pull up stakes: Vocabulary.com
  6. pull up stakes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pull up stakes: Wiktionary
  8. pull up stakes: Dictionary.com
  9. pull up stakes: Rhymezone
  10. pull up stakes: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pull up stakes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. pull up stakes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pull up stakes: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pull Up Stakes: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pull up stakes)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.

Similar:
up sticks, break camp, take one's hook, move house, skedaddle, hitch up, jump ship, make a move, pull away, rustle up, more...

Opposite:
settle down, stay put, establish roots

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Similar:
up sticks, break camp, take one's hook, move house, skedaddle, hitch up, jump ship, make a move, pull away, rustle up, more...

Opposite:
settle down, stay put, establish roots



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