Results for “stake in the ground”

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put a stake in the ground
phrase

To make a firm initial decision to build from.

#corporate#office#work#idiom
stake
verb, noun

Gambling items or gold against another player in a duel.

#osrs#gambling#duel#pvp
stakeholder
noun

Anyone affected by or invested in a project.

#corporate#office#work#project-management
high ground
noun

A raised spot that gives you the angle and the advantage.

#fps#battle-royale#positioning#tactics
ground loot
noun

Loot that spawns out in the world, not from crates or crafting.

#battle royale#loot#apex legends
underground
noun

Underground Atlanta — the historic district built below the streets.

#atlanta#hip-hop#geography#downtown
Memphis Underground
phrase

The lo-fi, devilish, tape-deck era of 90s Memphis rap.

#tennessee#memphis#hip-hop#phonk
neutral ground
noun

What New Orleans calls a road median.

#nola#southern#geography#mardi-gras
hit the ground running
phrase

To be productive immediately.

#corporate#office#work#idiom
table stakes
noun

The bare minimum needed to compete.

#corporate#office#work#strategy
groundpounder
noun

An infantryman who fights on foot.

#military#army#infantry
Ground pounder
noun

An infantryman.

#military#army#infantry
Groundhog Day
noun

A deployment where every day feels identical.

#military#army#deployment#morale
Lance Corporal Underground
noun

The junior-enlisted rumor mill.

#military#army#usmc#rumor
Great Mistakes
noun

Sailors' nickname for the Great Lakes boot camp.

#military#army#navy#training
groundswell
noun

Long-traveled, powerful swell with long gaps between waves.

#skater#surf#ocean#forecast
tower
noun

A circle on the ground someone has to stand in, or 'soak', to defuse it.

#mmo#ffxiv#raid#mechanics
cranking 90s
verb

Spamming 90-degree build turns to shoot up to high ground fast.

#fortnite#battle royale#building#high ground
90s
noun

The rapid ramp-and-wall build technique for rushing to high ground.

#fortnite#battle royale#building#high ground
Chicken blocking
noun, verb

Jumping to block in the air instead of on the ground in air-block games — the coward's defence.

#fighting games#fgc#blocking#air
Anti-air
noun, verb

A grounded move built to swat jumping opponents out of the sky.

#fighting games#fgc#defence#fundamentals
SHFFL
noun, verb

Short hop, fast fall, L-cancel an aerial — the cleanest, laggiest-free way to throw an air move from the ground in Melee.

#smash bros#melee#tech#fgc
Cadbury's Flake
noun

Cockney rhyming slang for a mistake.

#cockney#london#rhyming-slang#british
shoot-da-chute
noun

A playground slide.

#nola#dialect#childhood#south
the Tunnels
proper noun

Underground pedestrian network beneath downtown Dallas.

#dallas#texas#downtown#infrastructure
grunt
noun

An infantryman — the boots-on-the-ground soldier.

#military#infantry#vietnam#slang
Greenmail
noun

Buy a big stake, threaten a takeover, then sell it back to the target at a premium.

#finance#wall-street#m&a#corporate-raid
Navvy
noun

A manual labourer, especially on heavy excavation or groundworks.

#construction#trades#british#labourer
Pile butt
noun

Pile driver — the foundation crew driving piles into the ground.

#construction#foundations#marine#trades
Sand hog
noun

Tunnel worker — the crew digging underground and underwater.

#construction#tunneling#trades#nyc
into the black
phrase

Run back into the already-burned ground — it can't burn you twice.

#wildland#firefighter#safety#survival
noguing
verb

Voguing done wrong — fake vogue with no training or ballroom grounding.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#shade
kiki ball
noun

A casual, community-first ball with lighter stakes, often where newcomers learn.

#ballroom#vogue#lgbtq#kiki
pothound
noun

A mongrel stray dog; also a person of mixed background.

#caribbean#patois#animals#people
provisions
noun

Starchy root vegetables (ground provisions)

#caribbean#patois#food#vegetable
UGL 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#gym#fitness#steroids#peds
test base 18+
noun

Mature content — open to view.

#gym#fitness#ped#steroids
No blood, no foul
phrase

Playground rule: only obvious hard contact counts as a foul

#sports#streetball#culture#rules
streetball
noun

Informal, showy playground basketball

#sports#streetball#culture
And1
noun

Streetball brand and mixtape tour that spread playground culture

#sports#streetball#culture#brand