Dictionary

stick up en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To rob at gunpoint.
   • Listen up, at around 2300 we received multiple 911 calls from the 4U Gas Station at 5th and Vandrake in Southside, we believe this to be a stick up robbery with multiple armed suspects. 2023, VOID Interactive, Ready or Not (video game), scene: Mission brief, level/area: Thank You, Come Again:
   • I think they intend to stick up the bank.
   • What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me. 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be prominent; to point upwards.
   • No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.
3. (intransitive, with for) To speak or act in defence (of).
   • Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.
4. (intransitive, with to) To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
5. (intransitive, with to) To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)
6. (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.

Forms

Deriveds

sticky-uppy · sticky-up

Relateds

stick 'em up! · stick up for · stuck up · stickup

Translations (13)

fr coller (to put up by sticking) · fr rester (to rob at gunpoint) · fi liimata (to put up by sticking) · fi kiinnittää (to put up by sticking) · ru грабить (to rob at gunpoint) · gl atracar (to rob at gunpoint) · fi ryöstää (to rob at gunpoint) · eo alglui (to put up by sticking) · hu kiáll -ért/mellett (to protect one's status) · gl colar (to put up by sticking) · gl apegar (to put up by sticking) · gl pegar (to put up by sticking) · fr défendre (to protect one's status)