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stuck
[ stuhk ]
stuck
/ ʌ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of stick 2
adjective
- informal.baffled or nonplussed
- slang.foll by on keen (on) or infatuated (with)
- get stuck in or get stuck into informal.
- to perform (a task) with determination
- to attack (a person) verbally or physically
Other 51Թ Forms
- -ٳܳ adjective
Idioms and Phrases
- stuck on, Informal. infatuated with:
He met her only once and is already stuck on her.
Example Sentences
Campaigners estimate more than 300,000 homes could lose heating - or have it stuck on constantly - in what energy regulator Ofgem has called "an urgent consumer welfare issue".
Passengers on the Barcelona metro had to walk to safety using the torches on their mobile phones when their trains became stuck in tunnels.
“I’m riding this horse across this field and I get stuck in this mud bog,” Shirreffs said.
A more surprising guest appearance came from Joel and Benji Madden of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte, who did their “Anthem,” then stuck around to pitch in on Combs’ “Where the Wild Things Are.”
With shops, homes and restaurants plunged into darkness - and some people stuck in lifts - Spain's electricity network said by mid-afternoon that restoring power could take several hours.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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