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tree (one)

slang To cause or force one or an animal to climb up into a tree in order to avoid danger. A big grizzly bear treed us while we were out on our hike. We were stuck up there for nearly an hour waiting for it to go away! The dogs treed the jaguar, and it remained perched up there until animal control arrived.
See also: tree

up a tree

1. In a troublesome or challenging situation. I have no idea how I'm going to get out of this contract—I'm really up a tree now.
2. Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really up a tree!
See also: tree, up
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tree

n. marijuana. Grass, tree, bush. It’s all pot!
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No one knows how many people have moved because this year's crop yield is less than the last's, or because the four-hour walk for water simply becomes too much, or because being a maid or a houseboy is a little better than life on some treeless plain.
CEC environmental specialist Dobbels Wallang said sheet and rill erosion can also happen if a property is treeless. To prevent this from happening, trees should be planted across the slope.
While most woodpeckers live in forests or woodland habitats, there are a few species are known that live in treeless areas, such as rocky hillsides and deserts, (for example, the Gila woodpecker specializing in exploiting cacti).
On the ground, photographers took pity on the students who sat around the treeless, leafless circle.
Consequently we see more and more of treeless fields and cities.
It is a far land, empty and treeless, lit only by impossibly distant stars and the underbellies of clouds, still cold from winter.
What are the flat and treeless plains of Argentina called?
While being treeless, due to the absence of a fresh water source, the island's vegetation consists of scrubs and large bushes.
Mentioning that the Astola saw-scaled viper is endemic to the island and due to the absence of a fresh water source it is treeless. while its vegetation consists of scrubs and large bushes.
Conceived in the same delicate minor key as her earlier films ("In Between Days," "Treeless Mountain" and "For Ellen"), So Yong Kim's fourth feature dances nervously but gracefully around a love that not only dares not speak its name, but can barely even figure itself out.
What is the word used to describe large areas of treeless land extending from Hungary through the Ukraine and into Southern Russia?
When they move again, Woodson feels a sense of loss and sees New York City as "treeless as a bad dream.
Should your DIY hunt be taking you to a largely treeless environment, the easiest answer is a sturdy shooting stick or even a tripod version.
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