dare vs stick up

dare

verb
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

stick up

verb
  • To defy, to confront, to stand up to. 

  • To rob at gunpoint. 

  • To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role) 

  • To speak or act in defence (of). 

  • To be prominent; to point upwards. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking. 

How often have the words dare and stick up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )