Noun (1)
grew up in the sticks and is used to traveling miles just to get a loaf of bread Verb (2)
those magnets are strong enough to stick to the refrigerator without any problems
you can stick that box in the corner until I figure out where to put everything
could hardly feel the needle when the nurse stuck my arm with it
she got stuck by an unscrupulous seller while using the online auction site
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
There will be Spam on a stick, Spam fries, Spam sliders and a Spam lunch plate.—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024 Habibur Rahman/Abaca Press/Reuters In 1998, a scientist named Michael Mann published a graph in Nature magazine shaped like a hockey stick – illustrating the exponential heating of the Earth over the last century compared with the previous millennium.—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
Verb
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As a result, elephants often resort to what Kiley-Worthington calls sticking behaviors — doing things to keep the group together.—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2024 But Gill’s return has breathed new life into the strange nooks of social media platforms like Discord, Reddit, and YouTube, where amateur investors trade memes and financial advice, often with the spirit of sticking it to institutional traders like large hedge funds.—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for stick
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English stik, from Old English sticca; akin to Old Norse stik stick, Old English stician to stick
Verb (2)
Middle English stikken, from Old English stician; akin to Old High German sticken to prick, Latin instigare to urge on, goad, Greek stizein to tattoo
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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