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stuck
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table" [syn: lodge , wedge , deposit ] [ant: dislodge ] stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"unable to go any further," 1885, past participle adjective from stick (v.). Colloquial stuck-up "offensively conceited, assuming an unjustified air of superiority" is recorded from 1829.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 trapped and unable to move. 2 unable to progress. v (en-past of: stick) (which in the past was '''sticked''') Etymology 2 n. (context obsolete English) A thrust.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Stuck " is a song by Stacie Orrico , released in 2003. It can be found on her self-titled second album . It was used in the Disney Channel Original Movie 's Stuck in the Suburbs . It was the official theme song of the 2004 Copa América tournament. "Stuck" ...
Usage examples of stuck.
This adapid generally stuck to the deeper forest where its slowness was not as disadvantageous as it would be on more open ground.
The last thing I wanted back then, Rae, was to get stuck in Alameda by an unplanned pregnancy.
A little alnico magnet, stuck in exactly the right place with a wad of chewing gum, can erase a hundred thousand units of information before they find it.
He stuck his hands in his alpaca pockets and leaned back against the railing.
They looked like clusters of pyramidical Amalgam Creatures stuck together into various shapes.
I mean, how are we going to snare her a nice androsphinx if she stays stuck inside with her books all day every day?
How many weeks I laid there blown right up the gut watching that bottle of plasma run down tubes stuck in me anyplace they could get one in?
The aspergillum he handed her was a tuft of evergreen bound to a handle of myrtlewood, stuck in a small silver bucket of holy water.
Green-shirted avionics technicians swarmed over it as it rolled to a stop, popping panels off of it to find the cause of the stuck aileron.
Cratchit entered-flushed, but smiling proudly-with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
Cratchit entered, flushed, but smiling proudly, with the pudding like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
For the next couple of days he was stuck in Belamy, which was little more than a stoplight stuck in the middle of no-goddamned-where.
He crashed into the Blimp and the spear in his neck stuck fast in the Blimp, pinning him like a butterfly in a display case.
The captain had already got one foot in the wherry, and the watermen, equally alarmed with himself, were trying to push off, when the invaders came up, and, springing into the boat, took possession of the oars, sending Bludder floundering into the Thames, where he sunk up to the shoulders, and stuck fast in the mud, roaring piteously for help.
She poured black-powder into six funnels made of paper, each of which had a fuse of twine sticking out of its apex, and stuck them in cracks just below the Bookmark layer.