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stick fat en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, colloquial) To persist through a difficult time.
    • "I’m a good person for sticking fat? I’m a good person for acknowledging that even though my team seem to have completely missed all boats of skill and ability this year, I am a good person for still wearing the colours?" 2018 April 30, Yvette Wroby, “Round 6 - Hawthorn v St Kilda: Sympathy and Time Out”, in The Footy Almanac, retrieved 23 Aug 2018:
    • "RESEARCHERS have found even with extremely poor germination rates farmers are better ‘sticking fat’ with their canola crops rather than resowing." 2015 May 19, Gregor Heard, “Hybrid canola a resowing winner”, in Farm Online National, retrieved 23 Aug 2018:

Forms

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sticking fat Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stuck fat Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stuck fat Tense=Past lexicographic
sticks fat Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic