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stuck
[ stuhk ]
stuck
/ stʌk /
adjective
- informal.baffled or nonplussed
- slang.foll by on keen (on) or infatuated (with)
- get stuck in or get stuck into informal.
- to perform (a task) with determination
- to attack (a person) verbally or physically
Other Words From
- self-stuck adjective
Idioms and Phrases
- stuck on, Informal. infatuated with:
He met her only once and is already stuck on her.
Example Sentences
Within minutes, it seems, of the disclosures of these tragic events, large numbers of people chose a side and stuck to it.
What stuck in my mind were the two supporting actors, Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin.
Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.
Only the L, K, and A of the old sign remain stuck to the side of the office.
And if she just gets stuck there, her influence, however great among the Democratic base, will never grow outside of it.
He didn't need to wait—as the birds did—until an angleworm stuck his head above ground.
If it be taken from others 'tis like plums stuck upon blackthorns; there they are for a while, but they come to nothing.
You see, I stuck to him like a log to a root, but for the first week or so 'twant no use—not a bit.
The portmanteau was the sign of youth and progress; old-fashioned people stuck to the carpet bag.
You are not the first that has picked up my hints, and stuck fast in their execution.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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