stuck

[ stuhk ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of stick ².

stuck

/ stʌk /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of stick 2

adjective

1. informal.
   baffled or nonplussed
2. slang.
   foll by on keen (on) or infatuated (with)
3. get stuck in or get stuck into informal.
   1. to perform (a task) with determination
   2. to attack (a person) verbally or physically

Other Words From

• self-stuck adjective

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. stuck on, Informal. infatuated with:

   He met her only once and is already stuck on her.

Example Sentences

“We can have eight hours of sleep - but most people get stuck in the window looking at Earth,” Ms Stott says.

From BBC

"We are still stuck with the problems we faced before. We still don't have financial help even to fulfil our daily needs," 26-year-old garment factory worker Manjula Devi, who works in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone near Colombo, told the BBC.

From BBC

Being stuck in your career that you are now really kind of starting to resent because it’s not about healing people all the time, it’s about bureaucracy.

From Los Angeles Times

But she stuck with it to stay fit.

From Los Angeles Times

“We spent the night, we did drugs together and something intimate happened,” Paiz said, noting that while he stuck to weed, Payne was allegedly doing cocaine.

From Los Angeles Times