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stick up (third-person singular simple present sticks up, present participle sticking up, simple past and past participle stuck up)

1. (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.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To rob at gunpoint.

   I think they intend to stick up the bank.

   • 2006, Noire , Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     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.

   • 2023, VOID Interactive, Ready or Not (video game), scene: Mission brief, level/area: Thank You, Come Again:

     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.

3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be prominent; to point upwards.

   No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.

4. (intransitive, with for) To speak or act in defence (of).

   Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.

5. (intransitive, with to) To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
6. (intransitive, with to) To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)

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