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Definition of Stick out

1. Verb. Extend out or project in space. "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"

2. Verb. Be highly noticeable.

3. Verb. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. "Sam cannot stick out Sue "; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

Definition of Stick out

1. Verb. To protrude; to extend beyond. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive. ¹

3. Verb. To persist. See stick it out. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stick Out

stick in the mud stick in the muds stick insect stick insects stick it out stick it to the man stick lac stick man stick men stick on

stick one's neck out stick one's nose in stick one's nose into stick one's oar in stick one's tongue out stick out (current term) stick out like a sore thumb stick pusher stick shaker stick shift

stick that in your pipe and smoke it stick to stick to one's guns stick together stick up stick up for stick with stickable stickball stickball game

Literary usage of Stick out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Household Stories, from the Collection of the Bros: Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1883)
"The turner had only been waiting for this to happen, and just as the landlord was giving a last courageous pull, he cried, " Stick, out of ..."

2. Our Old Home, and English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1912)
"The dead branches of one of the pines stick out horizontally through the ivy-boughs. The other shows nothing but the ivy, and in shape a good deal resembles ..."

3. Our Old Home: And English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1898)
"The dead branches of one of the pines stick out horizontally through the ivy-boughs. The other shows nothing but the ivy, and in shape a good deal resembles ..."

4. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1898)
"Married women shape it with adhesive materials, so as to lie close to the head, and curve out behind like a cup-handle ; or else wi: appendages stick out ..."

5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"The stick-out in the picture is such a little stick-out. ... I think the stick-out is a good-sized stick- out, and I 'm sure the candy was a good large ..."

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