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stagedive

stagedive noun: a leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.

Noun

stagedive (plural stagedives)

  1. A leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.
    • I also heard Yow's boots later that night after a particularly tangled stagedive.2014, The Jesus Lizard Book, page 163

Verb

stagedive (third-person singular simple present stagedives, present participle stagediving, simple past stagedived or (chiefly US) stagedove, past participle stagedived)

  1. (intransitive) To leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.
    • 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.1998, John M. Rocco, Brian Rocco, The Nirvana Companion, page 131
    • 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).2004, Brian Edge, 924 Gilman: The Story So Far, page 17

Forms of stagedive

Noun
pluralstagedives
alternative formstage dive
alternative formstage-dive
Verb
third-person singular presentstagedives
present participlestagediving
paststagedived
past USstagedove
past participlestagedived

Origin of stagedive

From stage + dive.

Questions about stagedive

What does stagedive mean?
Stagedive means a leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.
What part of speech is stagedive?
Stagedive can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of stagedive?
The plural of stagedive is stagedives.

Words near stagedive in the dictionary

  1. stagecraft
  2. stagecrafts
  3. stagecraftsman
  4. stagecraftsmen
  5. staged
  6. stagedive
  7. stagedived
  8. stagediver
  9. stagedivers
  10. stagedives
  11. stagediving

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