stick
/stɪk/ noun C2- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab; an instance of sticking (pricking or piercing).
- An instance of piercing someone with a needle, e.g. to draw blood or start an IV.
- A person whom one is piercing with a needle to draw blood or start an IV (especially in the context of how difficult or easy this is).
- The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
Plural sticks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Waves upon the stick!
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
You’ve got as much money to waste as any of ’em, and yet you stick to what’s decent and moderate.
His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait had lunged out once too far, and Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away.
Other matches
- stick To become or remain attached B1
- stick A small, thin branch from a tree or bush B2
- stick To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member o... C2
- stick Likely to stick C2
- stick around To stay
- stick by to follow or adhere to somebody or something, t...
- stick down To cause to stick to a surface.
- stick out To protrude.
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