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7 N‑UNCOUNT If you give someone some stick , you criticize them or tease them roughly. [BRIT , INFORMAL ] □  It's not motorists who give you the most stick, it's the general public. □  I get some stick from the lads because of my faith but I don't mind.

8 N‑PLURAL If you say that someone lives in the sticks , you mean that they live a long way from any large cities. [INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ] □  He lived out in the sticks somewhere.

9 PHRASE If someone gets the wrong end of the stick or gets hold of the wrong end of the stick , they do not understand something correctly and get the wrong idea about it. [INFORMAL ]

➋ stick ◆◆◇ /st I k/ (sticks , sticking , stuck )

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1 VERB If you stick something somewhere, you put it there in a rather casual way. [INFORMAL ] □ [V n prep/adv] He folded the papers and stuck them in his desk drawer. □ [V n prep/adv] Jack opened his door and stuck his head out.

2 VERB If you stick a pointed object in something, or if it sticks in something, it goes into it or through it by making a cut or hole. □ [V n + in/into/through ] Some punk stuck a knife in her last night. □ [V n + in/into/through ] The soldiers went at once to the mound and began to stick their bayonets through it. □ [V + in ] The knife stuck in the ground at his feet.

3 VERB If something is sticking out from a surface or object, it extends up or away from it. If something is sticking into a surface or object, it is partly in it. □ [V adv/prep] They lay where they had fallen from the crane, sticking out of the water. □ [V adv/prep] His hair sticks up in half a dozen directions. □ [V adv/prep] …when we see her with lots of tubes and needles sticking into her little body.

4 VERB If you stick one thing to another, you attach it using glue, sticky tape, or another sticky substance. □ [V n prep] We just stuck it to the window. □ [V n with adv] He has nowhere to stick up his posters. □ [V n with adv] Stick down any loose bits of flooring.

5 VERB If one thing sticks to another, it becomes attached to it and is difficult to remove. □ [V + to ] Peel away the waxed paper if it has stuck to the bottom of the cake. □ [V together ] If left to stand, cooked pasta sticks together.

6 VERB If something sticks in your mind, you remember it for a long time. □ [V + in ] There was one journey that particularly sticks in my mind.

7 VERB If something which can usually be moved sticks , it becomes fixed in one position. □ [V ] The needle on the dial went right round to fifty, and there it stuck.

8 → see also stuck

9to stick in your throat → see throat

▸  stick around PHRASAL VERB If you stick around , you stay where you are, often because you are waiting for something. [INFORMAL ] □ [V P ] Stick around a while and see what develops. [Also V P n]

▸  stick at PHRASAL VERB If you stick at a task or activity, you continue doing it, even if it is difficult. □ [V P n] You will find it hard at first, but stick at it.

▸  stick by

1 PHRASAL VERB If you stick by someone, you continue to give them help or support. □ [V P n] …friends who stuck by me during the difficult times as Council Leader.

2 PHRASAL VERB If you stick by a promise, agreement, decision, or principle, you do what you said you would do, or do not change your mind. □ [V P n] But I made my decision then and stuck by it.

▸  stick out