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Stick Around

Definition: Stick Around

Stick Around

Verb

1. Be available or ready for a certain function or service.

2. Stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!""Stick around and you will learn something!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Stick Around

Synonyms: stand by (v), stay (v), stay put (v), stick (v), stick about (v). (additional references)
Antonym: move (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Stick Around

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You not gonna stick around for your share? (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

No, no, I'm talking about, what kind of a man would you want to stick around and help raise your child? (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

You stick around here, you're gonna be deader'n a beaver hat. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: Josef Anderson; Chris Black)

Teal'c, you don't have to stick around. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Logan, good guys stick around. (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter)

Lyrics

So stick around (Bennie And The Jets; performing artist: Elton John)

I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind (RUNNING ON EMPTY; performing artist: JACKSON BROWN)

Or do I stick around and cry, cause now it's time to say goodbye (Me, Myself and I; performing artist: Vitamin C)

Movie/TV Titles

Stick Around (1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Stick Around

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Stick Around

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Mr. Richberg, it looks like the starlings and I will have to do some collective bargainin' to stick around here!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stick Around

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stick around

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stick Around

Language Translations for "stick around"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إنتظر في مكانه, ‏بقي (abide, be, bide, continue, endure, exist, remain, reside, rest, sit, stay, stop, subsist, sustain, tarry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

навъртам се (buzz about, hang about, hover, hover about, kick around). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zùstat blízko. (various references)

   

French

  

rester dans les parages, rester (stay, stay over, stick, stop, to stay), attendre (stay). (various references)

   

German

  

dableiben (stay on, stop behind, stop in, stop on). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραμένω τριγύρω. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"שאר במקום (stay put). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

õgyeleg (hang out, linger, saunter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

restare (abide, be left, keep, lie, remain, rest, stand, stay, stay over), fermarsi (abide, cease, come to a halt, halt, make a pause, pause, stand, stay behind, stay over, stop, stop over). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickstay arounday

   

Portuguese

  

ficar de perto. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

оставаться поблизости. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

quedarse (abide, become, come out, hang on, keep, Lodge, remain, sit, stay, stay behind, stay over, stop behind, take, Tarry, wait behind, wait out), quedar (abide, agree, be situated, come off, come up, drop, fall on, fall upon, jack in, keep, lead off, leave, leave off, leave over, let into, line out, meet, remain, rest, stay, take away, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, trail, trim away, trim off, weaken, wind), esperar por ahí. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

takılmak (banter, be affixed, be attached, catch, chaff, chip, guy, hang out, haunt, hook, impose oneself on, jam, jam in, jolly, Josh, kid, lark, lark about, lark around, lock, lock on, pull smb.'s leg, rally, rib, rot, seize, seize up, snag, sport, stick, tease), etrafında dolaşmak (go around, go round), ayrılmamak (hang together, stand to, stick, stick to, stick together). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тинятися поблизу. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Stick Around

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-k-n-o-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: soundtrack.

-2 letters: custodian, durations, inductors, outdrinks, suctorian.

-3 letters: antirock, auctions, auditors, candours, carotids, carotins, cautions, conduits, courants, crankous, curtains, diatrons, dinosaur, discount, dornicks, duration, inductor, intrados, noctuids, outdrank, outdrink, outranks, rainouts, rotundas, ructions, sardonic, stinkard, sudation, tornadic, unitards.

-4 letters: acinous, actions, anticks, arkosic, aroints, astound, atonics, auction, auditor, candors, candour, cantors, carious, carotid, carotin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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