Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who sticks up. See to stick up .
- n. Also the meat itself: as, our sticker-up consisted only of ham.
- n. A highwayman or bush-ranger; one who sticks up and plunders mail-coaches, etc., killing his victims if necessary (?). See to stick up .
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“Ah! but some sticker-up for gentility will exclaim, "The hero did not refuse this office from an insurmountable dislike to its ungentility, but merely from a feeling of principle.”
“Ah! but some sticker-up for gentility will exclaim, 'The hero did not refuse this office from an insurmountable dislike to its ungentility, but merely from a feeling of principle.”
“For the reading public I imagine this means hearing a little more each day about the nation's most famous literary prize, as the arts media gear up to the announcement live on the Ten O'Clock News, bookshops change displays, sticker-up the winning novel, and an author who may or may not have been on everyone's radar is suddenly slap bang in the middle of it and being asked to justify why.”
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