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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
stuck
- simple past and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)
Adjective
stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)
- Unable to move.
- Synonyms: static, unmovable; see also Thesaurus:immobile
Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.
If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.
- Unable to progress with a task.
I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.
- No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.
There are several ways to close a stuck program.
- (slang, archaic) In the situation of having no money.
- Synonyms: broke, penniless; see also Thesaurus:impoverished
Derived terms
Translations
trapped and unable to move
- Arabic: عَالِق (ʕāliq)
- Hijazi Arabic: عَالِق (ʕālig), مَعْزُوق (maʕzūg), مَحْشُور (maḥšūr)
- Catalan: encallat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 卡住 (zh) (kǎzhù), 卡 (zh) (kǎ)
- Finnish: jumissa (fi)
- French: bloqué (fr), coincé (fr)
- German: eingeklemmt (de), festgeklemmt (de)
- Italian: intrappolato (it), bloccato (it)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: fīxus
- Polish: zaklinowany
- Portuguese: preso (pt)
- Romanian: înțepenit (ro)
- Russian: застря́вший (ru) (zastrjávšij)
- Spanish: atascado (es), atrapado (es), pegado (es), atollado (es) m, atorado (es) m
- Swedish: fast (sv)
- Thai: ค้าง (th) (káang), ติด (th) (dtìt), คา (th) (kaa)
- Tày: cà, cạng
- Ukrainian: застря́глий (zastrjáhlyj)
- Walloon: astok (wa)
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References
- (having no money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Etymology 2
Compare stoccado.
Noun
stuck (plural stucks)
- (obsolete) A thrust, especially with a lance or sword.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 160:If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.
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