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stuck
[ stuhk ]
stuck
/ ʌ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of stick 2
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 Word Forms
- -ٳܳ adjective
Idioms and Phrases
- stuck on, Informal. infatuated with:
He met her only once and is already stuck on her.
Example Sentences
I take my hat off to Saints fans, because they have stuck with their team through such a dismal season - and maybe they will have something to celebrate when they play Leicester next week.
The event kicked off in Milton Keynes last summer but suffered teething troubles, when fans were stuck in long queues.
“Add in a hefty dose of nostalgia, and it’s a trend that seems to have stuck,” she says.
The last thing you need while enjoying tinned fish is having a thin fish bone lodged inside your throat or getting stuck between your teeth.
Children have been injured and patients left stuck in hospital because of a lack of carpet in their homes, a charity has said.
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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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