STICKING OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sticking out mean? 

• STICKING OUT (adjective)
  The adjective STICKING OUT has 1 sense:

1. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

  Familiarity information: STICKING OUT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STICKING OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

Synonyms:

jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out

Context example:

a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

 Context examples 

It was sticking out of him in all directions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.

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

Her incredulity made her uncomfortable, and failing of other expedient, she said: I know you're hungry, Mart. It's sticking out all over you.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Alleyne passed him swiftly by, for he had learned from the monks to have no love for the wandering friars, and, besides, there was a great half-gnawed mutton bone sticking out of his pouch to prove him a liar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This morning when I saw his bones sticking out of his face and his great bright eyes looking at me I could stand no more of it. ‘With your leave or without it, Mr. Holmes, I am going for a doctor this very hour,’ said I. ‘Let it be Watson, then,’ said he.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.

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

In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) we saw a hollow pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.

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

"Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?" asked the Tin Woodman.

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

Mr. Micawber, humming a tune, to show that he was quite at ease, subsided into his chair, with the handle of a hastily concealed fork sticking out of the bosom of his coat, as if he had stabbed himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood."

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