STICK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stick in mean? 

• STICK IN (verb)
  The verb STICK IN has 2 senses:

1. insert casually

2. place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing

  Familiarity information: STICK IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STICK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insert casually

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

insert; slip in; sneak in; stick in

Context example:

She slipped in a reference to her own work

Hypernyms (to "stick in" is one way to...):

add; append; supply (state or say further)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stick in"):

spatchcock (interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in

Context example:

Insert your ticket here

Hypernyms (to "stick in" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stick in"):

plug (insert as a plug)

plug (insert a plug into)

plug (replace the center of a coin with a baser metal)

inoculate (introduce a microorganism into)

inset (set or place in)

glass (put in a glass container)

catheterise; catheterize (insert a catheter into (a body part))

cup (put into a cup)

interlard; intersperse (introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions)

feed; feed in (introduce continuously)

slip (insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly)

foist (insert surreptitiously or without warrant)

inject; shoot (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

To wash my face clean after the dust of the road, and to drink, so the dry bread will not stick in my throat.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy stick in his hand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held a short, metal-headed stick in his hand, and he advanced in so menacing a fashion that I was right glad to feel the revolver in my pocket.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he came up with them, he saw that two little lads, the one about nine years of age and the other somewhat older, were standing on the plot in front of the cottage, each holding out a round stick in their left hands, with their arms stiff and straight from the shoulder, as silent and still as two small statues.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had a heavy oak stick in my hand, and I tell you I saw red from the first; but as I ran I got cunning, too, and hung back a little to see them without being seen.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it, backward and forward, several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)