estacada

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estacada
feminine noun
also:
  • dejar a alguien en la estacada -> to leave somebody in the lurch
  • quedarse en la estacada -> to be left in the lurch

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estacada [es-tah-cah’-dah]
noun
1Palisade or stockade. (Military) (f)
2Paling, a kind of fence-work for parks, gardens, and grounds (cerca). (f)
3A place to fight in, place for a duel. (f)
  • Dejar en la estacada -> to abandon one in peril, to sacrifice him

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estacada
sustantivo:femenino
1 (cerca) fence; fencing; (Mil) stockade; palisade; (Latinoamérica) (malecón) dike
dejar a algn en la estacada to leave sb in the lurch
estar quedar en la estacadao (estar en apuros) to be in a jam fix;o be left in the lurch; (fracasar) to fail disastrously; be a total disaster; (familiar)
2 (Latinoamérica) (herida) wound

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