Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense and past participle of stick.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit and past participle of stick and stick.
- n. A thrust.
- A dialectal variant of stook.
- n. Stucco.
Wiktionary
- adj. Trapped and unable to move.
- adj. Unable to progress.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of stick.
- n. obsolete A thrust.
GNU Webster's 1913
- imp. & p. p. of stick.
- n. obsolete A thrust.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. baffled.
- adj. caught or fixed
Etymologies
- Compare stoccado. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He earned his nickname as an eager teen in his first MLB camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career, and beyond.”
The Guardian: Gary Carter, Hall of Fame catcher who won World Series with Mets, dies at 57
“He earned the nickname "Kid" as an eager teen in his first major league camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career, and beyond.”
“The label stuck for a long time but this exhibition should go a long way to revealing how hard-won Miro's apparent playfulness was.”
“Mr. Blackwell read the label stuck on the penny, and said, A little penny to change the world.”
“He screwed the aluminium top back in place and read the label stuck onto the front of the medication.”
“Each bag had a label stuck to it, with scrawny writing listing a grid reference and sometimes a field name, but many labels had lost their glue, slipped off, and gathered in the bottom of the box.”
“Carter earned the nickname "Kid" as an eager teen in his first major league camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career.”
“The label stuck to her like a price tag on the 33.19 carat Krupp Diamond, one of her many famous gems.”
“Gone is the "hug-a-hoodie" Cameron - a label stuck to him after a speech in July 2006 in which he said anti-social youngsters often needed to feel more love - and in its place is the "Hang 'Em High" Cameron who has authorized the use of water cannon and plastic bullets to combat the rioters, even though it has emerged the police do not believe they currently need them.”
“One attendee joked that they should rent a Winnebago to roam the country and meet everyone from the Web site, and another said, “Then it would be a Widowbago!” and the term stuck.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stuck’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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List The First
Short words with strong sounds.
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
tutelage, hobby horse, abracadabra, occipital, martinet, margarita, persona, cute, sharp, acute, confabulate, conspire and 97 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Middle of the night
It's a mix of problems and monthly moodiness.
loneliness, stuck, smoking, blotchy, anxiety, uncertainty, perceive, ugly, jealous, undeserving, flawed, achey and 6 more...
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I am
considering, ruined, troubled, worried, frustrated, negative, depressing, depressed, depression, sick, exhausted, alone and 59 more...
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what's the point?
word groups collected around pointing
spire, spear, spike, spit, steak, stick, stuck, pike, index, indicate, point, punctual and 7 more...
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OM2 Lesson 24
touch base, bowl, bowling, stair, sprain, crutch, stuck, mess up, ask for, church, sure thing, trafic light and 6 more...
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Writer's Block
Things that describe my condition right now.
unwilling, tired, bored, hate, disinterest, stumped, sorry, incoherent, illiterate, depressed, unsatisifed, unmotivated and 35 more...
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Aug17DF
notched up, tough, cope, akin, mild, faces, uprooted, backlog, boosting, counterpart, take part, stuck and 11 more...
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You'll shoot your eye out!
Words from my favorite holiday movie, A Christmas Story.
BB gun, air rifle, snowsuit, flick, double dog dare, triple dog dare, flagpole, tongue, stuck, theme, Christmas, bully and 30 more...
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