The meaning of the word stuck

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

stuck

1. simple past tense and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)

Adjective[edit]

stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)

1. Unable to move.

   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.

2. Unable to progress with a task.

   I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.

3. No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

   There are several ways to close a stuck program.

4. (slang, archaic) In the situation of having no money.

Derived terms[edit]

• stuck on

Translations[edit]

References[edit]

• (having no money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 2[edit]

Compare stoccado.

Noun[edit]

stuck (plural stucks)

1. (obsolete) A thrust.

   • 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], line 160:

     If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.

     See Wikisource

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stuck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams[edit]

• suckt, tucks

застрявший, прилипший, приклеенный, увязший, приставший, прилепившийся, склеенный

причастие

- застрявший; завязший; увязший
- приклеенный; приклеившийся
- прилипший; прилепившийся
- приставший
- присосавшийся

В выражениях, идиомах и прочем

to be stuck on smb. — влюбиться в кого-л.  
be stuck in a groove — войти в привычную колею  
stuck in — углублённый в работу; занятый; занятой  
stuck up — высокомерный, заносчивый, самодовольный; остановить с целью ограбления  
get stuck — достигать мёртвой точки; приклеиваться; спотыкаться  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Однокоренные слова

unstuck  — неприклеенный, свободный, отклеенный

He earned his nickname as an eager teen in his first MLB camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career, and beyond. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The label stuck for a long time but this exhibition should go a long way to revealing how hard-won Miro’s apparent playfulness was. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He earned the nickname «Kid» as an eager teen in his first major league camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career, and beyond. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Mr. Blackwell read the label stuck on the penny, and said, A little penny to change the world. ❋ Tracy Trivas (2010)

He screwed the aluminium top back in place and read the label stuck onto the front of the medication. ❋ Malla Nunn (2010)

Each bag had a label stuck to it, with scrawny writing listing a grid reference and sometimes a field name, but many labels had lost their glue, slipped off, and gathered in the bottom of the box. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

Carter earned the nickname «Kid» as an eager teen in his first major league camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career. ❋ By Ho (2012)

The label stuck to her like a price tag on the 33.19 carat Krupp Diamond, one of her many famous gems. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gone is the «hug-a-hoodie» Cameron — a label stuck to him after a speech in July 2006 in which he said anti-social youngsters often needed to feel more love — and in its place is the «Hang ‘Em High» Cameron who has authorized the use of water cannon and plastic bullets to combat the rioters, even though it has emerged the police do not believe they currently need them. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One attendee joked that they should rent a Winnebago to roam the country and meet everyone from the Web site, and another said, “Then it would be a Widowbago!” and the term stuck. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

The name stuck throughout my teenage years and people thought it was cool. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

The name stuck when he moved west to attend college in Washington. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

The band became known as the Studio Rivbea Orchestra, and the name stuck even after its leader closed his performance space and moved to Florida in 1991. ❋ Martin Johnson (2011)

«Hey [I heard] [your girlfriend] [broke up] with you last week»
«Yeah it’s got me stuck» ❋ Anxious. (2017)

After I [railed] those two fat [lines] of K, I was stuck for [an hour]!! ❋ Narkologik (2005)

[Damn] [man], he just [got stuck]! ❋ Jeff Hanson (2005)

look at that [foo] over there, [hes] [straight] stuck ❋ Blunt1 (2003)

1. You [betta] watch yo girl [fo’] she gets stuck.
2. Dude better watch his back fo’ he gets stuck.
3. Keep talkin and you [gon’] get stuck. ❋ 804_Cap_City (2005)

I stuck him/her [in the ass]/[cunt] ❋ Mickyhomer (2003)

I know it has been like [3 years] and he never talks to me but I am still [in love] with him. [I’m stuck] man. ❋ Radbrownie (2018)

you decide to give your B an [oral pleasure] and due to the quality of her ****** you become totally lost in [another world] and cannot get your head [outta] between her legs! Thus being stuck ❋ KBI (2005)

I felt stuck in my marriage for years, now I am [happily] [remarried] and could never leave my [spouse], now I am stuck stuck. ❋ Tigerpalm (2013)

Person 1: I’m off to write a [math test].
Person 2: [Get stuck in] lad.
Person 1: [Thanks man] I’ll try my best. ❋ Sheepherder37 (2018)