stick up
See also: stickup
English
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Verb
stick up (third-person singular simple present sticks up, present participle sticking up, simple past and past participle stuck up)
- (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking.
- Stick up the postcard with a bit of tape.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To rob at gunpoint.
- I think they intend to stick up the bank.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be prominent; to point upwards.
- No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.
- (intransitive, with for) To speak or act in defence (of).
- Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.
- (intransitive, with to) To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
- (intransitive, with to) To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)
Translations
to put up by sticking
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to rob at gunpoint
to protect one's status