Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stagedive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stage-dive
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.

verb

To leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"I also heard Yow's boots later that night after a particularly tangled stagedive."
"I deserve to get raped by a crowd if I stagedive in a dress, I deserve to get raped if I go to a bar and I'm wearing a bikini, I deserve to get raped because I did all these things I said before — nipping a hot young rock star in the bud, having a baby, having been a stripper, having used drugs."
"People invented new and silly ways to dance and stagedive, and bands like Isocracy—made up of Gilman volunteers—came up with numerous stunts to keep themselves and the audience entertained at their shows ( this usually involved a lot of throwing stuff back and forth)."
"In New York, people didn't even know how to stagedive."

Etymology

From stage + dive.

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

stagedives (plural) stage dive (alternative) stage-dive (alternative) stagedives (present, singular) stagediving (participle, present) stagedived (past) stagedove (US, past) stagedived (participle, past)

Questions

What does stagedive mean?: A leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.
Where does stagedive come from?: From stage + dive.

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