stu

See also: Stu and stu-

English

Alternative forms

• stu'

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: stu
• Homophone: stew

Noun

stu (plural stus)

1. (slang, rap) Clipping of studio.
   • 2007 December 8, “Hip Hop Saved My Life”, in Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, performed by Lupe Fiasco (feat. Nikki Jean):

     That's a track that's weak that he got last week / Cause everybody in the stu' was like: "That's that heat!"

   • 2016 March 4, “Kendrick Lamar Just Released a New Album, 'untitled unmastered.'”, in VICE‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-03-05:

     And lest you naysayers doubt it, Swizz even posted a video of Egpyt^[sic] in the stu, adding, "oh and to all you old ass producers mad at a 5yr old on his grind early step ya game up and get a life."

   • 2018 July 9, “Brothers”, in True 2 Myself‎^[2], performed by Lil Tjay:

     My first car I might cop a Mercedes / In the stu' everyday can't be lazy

   • 2019 January 11, Kaitlin Reilly, “Ariana Grande Shares Lyrics & Artwork For Her New Song "7 Rings"”, in Refinery29‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-03-05:

     "[W]ell ............. 'twas a pretty rough day in nyc," Grande tweeted. "My friends took me to tiffany's. we had too much champagne. i bought us all rings. it was very insane and funny. & on the way back to the stu njomza was like 'bitch, this gotta be a song lol'. so we wrote it that afternoon."

   • 2021 April 6, Shirley Ju, quoting 26AR, “The New Voice of Brooklyn is Here To 'Drench 'Em'”, in Flaunt‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-09-20:

     They had a big influence on me. They had a big influence on Brooklyn period. I like the nonsense. [laughs] They were wildin'. Everyone in Brooklyn was liking that shit. They're wildin'. Their story in the stu, it gets deep.

   • 2021 October 7, “Immune”, BLP Kosher (lyrics)‎^[5]:

     I know I can fly, cause once I tried then I done flew / Only time I really give a speech is in the stu'

Corsican

Determiner

stu

1. Contraction of istu; this
2. Contraction of questu; this

Esperanto

Verb

stu

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of estu.

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stu/

Determiner

stu (feminine sta)

1. Contraction of chistu; this

   Nun darme stu turmiento!

   Do not give me this torment!

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stu

1. imperative of stue

Polish

Alternative forms

• (instrumental): stoma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stu/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: stu

Numeral

stu

1. inflection of sto:
   1. virile nominative/accusative/vocative
   2. genitive/dative/instrumental/locative

Sicilian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃtu]

Adjective

stu (feminine singular sta, masculine and feminine plural sti)

1. Contraction of chistu; this
   • 1874, Lionardo Vigo, Raccolta amplissima di canti popolari siciliani, page 443:

     Torna a la casa, e iddu stissu misi a còciri stu pisci; e difatti la testa la detti a la cani, [...]

     He came back home, and he himself out to cook this fish; and in fact he gave the head to the [female] dog.

See also

• chistu