stuck
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
stuck
Adjective
stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)
- Trapped and unable to move.
- Sue tried to squeeze through the window, but got stuck.
- Can you shift this gate? I think it's stuck.
- Unable to progress.
- I'm stuck on this question in the test.
- Stop work (functioning), freeze up, freeze.
- The program always gets stuck when I have more than one window open.
Derived terms
Translations
trapped and unable to move
Etymology 2
Compare stoccado.
Noun
stuck (plural stucks)
- (obsolete) A thrust.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, IV. vii. 160:
- If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, IV. vii. 160:
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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