stuck

American  

[stuhk] / stʌk /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of stick.

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idioms

1. stuck on, infatuated with.

   He met her only once and is already stuck on her.

stuck British  

/ stʌk /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of stick 2

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adjective

1. informal baffled or nonplussed

2. slang (foll by on) keen (on) or infatuated (with)

3. informal

   1. to perform (a task) with determination

   2. to attack (a person) verbally or physically

Other Word Forms

• self-stuck adjective

Example Sentences

“Working with a man with that kind of sound, it stuck with us.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Into that room, I’d stuffed all the stuff that had stuck to me over the years.

From Los Angeles Times

"Two weeks I think we had to wait, he was stuck up there for two weeks."

From BBC

“This means we need to stay extremely cautious as the market has been stuck in an uncertain phase for quite a long time,” they added.

From Barron's

“This means we need to stay extremely cautious as the market has been stuck in an uncertain phase for quite a long time,” they added.

From Barron's