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stick out

verb

Updated on: 11 Sep 2017

Definition of stick out

intransitive verb

1 a :to jut out :project

b :to be prominent or conspicuous

2 :to be persistent (as in a demand or an opinion)

transitive verb

:endure, last —often used with it

stuck it out to the end

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Examples of stick out in a Sentence

no feet sticking out in the aisles, please
managed to stick out the whole race despite her bad knee

First Known Use of stick out

circa 1640

stick out Synonyms

Synonyms

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, bulge, swell

Related Words

dome; blow up, inflate; dilate, distend, expand; mushroom, snowball; elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch

Near Antonyms

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink

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