stuck up; sticking up; sticks up
: to stand upright or on end : protrude
hair that sticks up
: to rob at gunpoint
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Examples of stickup in a Sentence
Noun
He pulled out a gun and shouted, “This is a stickup!”.
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
And what of the demands of inhabiting two of the most kinetic American stickup men for eight shows a week?
—Jenny Lumet, Vanity Fair, 10 Feb. 2026
Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
His coach and a teammate got kicked out of the game trying to stick up for him.
—ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
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Noun
The amateurish stickup failed, fast.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
And what of the demands of inhabiting two of the most kinetic American stickup men for eight shows a week?
—Jenny Lumet, Vanity Fair, 10 Feb. 2026
Verb
Artificial corals can give deep-water marine life a place to live; cat sharks, for example, wrap necklace-like egg cases around any structure, natural or not, that sticks up from the seafloor.
—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
His coach and a teammate got kicked out of the game trying to stick up for him.
—ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Stickup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stickup. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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