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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /h?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijan? (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).

Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caed? (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

Verb

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)

1. (heading, physical) To strike.
   1. (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
      • 1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

        He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.

      • 1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game

        I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.

   2. (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

      • a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.

      • 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance

        Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.

   3. (intransitive) To strike against something.

      • If bodies be extension alone, […] how can they move and hit one against another?

   4. (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

   5. (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
      • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)

        FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.

   6. (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.

2. (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

   I hit the jackpot.

   Antonym: miss

3. (transitive, colloquial) To switch on.

   Antonyms: cut, kill

   Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!

4. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.

5. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

6. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
   1. (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
      • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:

        And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.

   2. (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
      • 1733, Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, a Rhapsody

        Millions miss for one that hits.

   3. To guess; to light upon or discover.
7. (transitive) To affect negatively.

8. (figuratively) To attack.
9. (heading, games) To make a play.
   1. (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.

   2. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.

   3. (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
10. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.

11. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.

12. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

Synonyms

• (administer a blow): beat, pelt, thump; see also Thesaurus:hit
• (kill a person): bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
• (attack): beset, fall upon, lay into; see also Thesaurus:attack
• (have sex with): bang, ram, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (smoke marijuana): smoke up, toke

Antonyms

• (manage to touch in the right place): miss

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hit (plural hits)

1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

   • So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.

   The hit was very slight.

3. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
4. An attack on a location, person or people.
5. A collision of a projectile with the target.
   1. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
6. (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
7. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

   My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

8. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
9. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

   The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.

10. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    Where am I going to get my next hit?

11. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
12. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    a happy hit
13. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
14. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Antonyms

• (a punch): miss
• (success): flop, turkey

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

hit (not comparable)

1. Very successful.

   The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it. Note 'it.

Pronoun

hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)

1. (dialectal) It.
   • 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:

     But how hit was to come about didn't appear.

   • 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:

     Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.

Derived terms

• hits
• hitself

Anagrams

• iht, ith, thi-

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• hüt, hüüd (Uri)

Etymology

From Old High German hiutu, from hiu +? tagu, a calque of Latin hodie. Cognate with German heute, Dutch heden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t/

Adverb

hit

1. (Alsatian) today

Catalan

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

   Synonym: èxit

References

Chamorro

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita. Doublet of ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Pronoun

hit

1. we, us (inclusive)

Usage notes

• hit is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or as an object of a transitive verb, while ta is used as a subject of a transitive verb.
• In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, hit can be used as a subject.

See also

References

• Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar?^[6], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Czech

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t/

Noun

hit m

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: šlágr

Danish

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/, [?hid?]

Noun

hit n (singular definite hittet, plural indefinite hit or hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

Inflection

Further reading

• “hit” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: hit
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English hit.

Noun

hit m (plural hits, diminutive hitje n)

1. A hit song, a very popular and successful song.
2. (by extension) A success, something popular and successful (especially in the entertainment industry).

Derived terms

• feesthit
• kersthit
• zomerhit

Etymology 2

Shortening of Hitlander (“Shetlander”).

Noun

hit m (plural hitten, diminutive hitje n or hitske n)

1. (dated) A Shetland pony.
2. (dated, regional) Any pony or small horse.

Derived terms

• daghit

Hungarian

Etymology

From hisz (“to believe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hit]
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

hit (plural hitek)

1. faith, belief
2. (archaic) oath, word of honour (e.g. in hitves and hitet tesz)

Declension

Derived terms

(Expressions):

• hitet tesz

Further reading

• hit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Adverb

hit

1. here

Determiner

hit

1. this

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[7], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Limburgish

Etymology

From Dutch hit, from English hit.

Noun

hit f

1. (slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)

Usage notes

Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, therefore slaag is more often used.

Inflection

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
• The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t/

Pronoun

hit

1. Alternative form of het

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hyt, hitt, hitte, hytte, it, yt, itt, jt, itte

Etymology

From Old English hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/, /it/

Pronoun

hit (accusative hit, genitive hit, his, possessive determiner hit, his)

2. Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
3. Sometimes used in reference to a child or man: he, she
4. Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
5. Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its
6. (impersonal, placeholder) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it

Descendants

• English: it
• Scots: hid

See also

Determiner

hit (nominative pronoun hit)

1. Third-person singular neuter possessive determiner: it

References

• “hit, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

Min Nan

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

hit

1. here (to this place)

References

• “hit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?t/

Adverb

hit

1. here (to this place)

References

• “hit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronoun

hit

1. it

Alternative forms

• it

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: het
  • Dutch: het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form of dat)
  • Limburgish: hèt

Further reading

• “hit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Alternative forms

• hitt

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisian hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic ???????????????? (hita, “it”). More at h?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xit/, [hit]

Pronoun

hit n (accusative hit, genitive his, dative him)

1. it

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hit, hyt, hitt, hitte, hytte, it, yt, itt, jt, itte
  • English: it
  • Scots: hid

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Article

hit

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of hinn

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From English hit, from Middle English hitten, from Old English hittan, from Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *kh?eyd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?it/

Noun

hit m inan

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

Declension

Further reading

• hit in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hit.

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: sucesso

Further reading

• “hit” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xit/, [?xit?]

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success)

   Synonym: éxito

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hit, from *h?+at.

• h?, from Proto-Indo-European *kei- (as in Ancient Greek ???? (ekeî))
• at, from Proto-Germanic *at, from Proto-Indo-European *ád (as in Swedish åt)

Composed in a similar way: Icelandic hegat and hingað.

Pronunciation

Adverb

hit (not comparable)

1. here; to this place, hither

Antonyms

• dit

Related terms

• hitåt

See also

• hit och dit
• här

Etymology 2

From English hit.

Noun

hit c

1. (informal) hit; something very popular. (A book, a movie, a song, ...)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: st?k, IPA^(key): /st?k/
• Homophone: stich
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”).

Noun

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

1. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
   1. A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

      Synonyms: branch, twig, (dialectal) rice, kindling, (uncountable) brush
   2. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
   3. (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).

      Synonym: two by four

   4. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.

      Synonyms: cane, walking stick
   5. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.

   6. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
   8. (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
   9. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).

      Synonyms: piece, item
2. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
   1. (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).

   2. A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.

   3. (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).

      Synonyms: joint, reefer

3. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
   1. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.

   2. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
   3. (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.

      Synonym: train
4. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
   1. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.

      Synonyms: stickshift, gearstick

      1. (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.

   2. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
   3. (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
   4. (computing) A memory stick.
   5. (slang) A handgun.
      • Dropkick Murphys, Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya (song)

        A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye

   6. (dated, letterpress typography) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
   7. (jazz, slang) The clarinet.

      Synonyms: licorice stick, liquorice stick
5. (sports) A stick-like item:
   1. (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.

   2. (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
   3. (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
   4. (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.

      Synonyms: pin, flagstick

   5. (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
      1. The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
6. (sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
   1. (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
   2. (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
   3. (baseball) General hitting ability.
   4. (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
7. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
   1. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
   2. (magic) An assistant planted in the audience.

      Synonyms: plant, shill
   3. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
   4. (military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.
   5. (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
8. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
   1. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
   2. (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.
   3. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.

      = he threw himself into the task of digging

      = she berated him (this sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment")
   4. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
9. A measure.
   1. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
   2. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.

      Synonyms: stich, broach

Usage notes

• (furniture): Generally used in the negative, or in contexts expressive of poverty or lack.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:stick

Derived terms

Note: Terms derived from the verb are found further below.

Translations

Verb

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle sticked)

1. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
2. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.

   to stick type

3. (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stik?n? (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”) (compare also the related Proto-Germanic *stikan?, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).

Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.

Noun

stick (uncountable)

1. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
2. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
3. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

Verb

stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle stuck or (archaic) sticked)

1. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.

2. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.

3. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
4. (intransitive) To persist.
5. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
6. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.

7. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 10,^[2]

     For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate

     That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire.

   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, Law is a Bottomless Pit, London: John Morphew, Chapter 1,^[3]

     Some stick not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will, for which they were well Paid […]

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 12,^[4]

     Though a cup of cold water from some hand may not be without its reward, yet stick not thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed […]

   • 1740, James Blair, Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount [...] explained, volume 3, page 26:

     And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they stuck not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.

   • 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, Volume 3, Letter 37, p. 375,^[5]

     For he that sticks not at one bad Action, will not scruple another to vindicate himself: And so, Devil-like, become the Tempter, and the Accuser too!

   • 1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524:

     The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices.

8. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
   • 1706, John Locke, Of the Conduct of the Understanding, Cambridge: J. Nicholson, 1781, pp. 48-49,^[6]

     He that has to do with young scholars, especially in mathematics, may perceive how their minds open by degrees, and how it is exercise alone that opens them. Sometimes they will stick a long time at a part of a demonstration, not for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas; that, to one whose understanding is more exercised, is as visible as any thing can be.

9. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
   • 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73,^[7]

     […] this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle […] .

10. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.

11. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
12. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.

    to stick a needle into one's finger

    • The points of spears are stuck within the shield.

    1. (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
       • circa 1583, John Jewel, in a sermon republished in 1847 in The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, portion 2, page 969:

         In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.

       • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 1

         Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!

       • 1809, Grafton's chronicle, or history of England, volume 2, page 135:

         […] would haue [=have] sticked him with a dagger […]

       • 1908, The Northeastern Reporter, volume 85, page 693:

         The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he sticked him with a knife."

13. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.

    to stick an apple on a fork

14. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
15. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.

16. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.

17. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
18. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.

    to stick somebody with a hard problem

19. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
20. (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
21. (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly Britain) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

Usage notes

In Early Modern English, the past participles stucken and sticken are occasionally found; they are not known in the modern language, even as archaisms.

Synonyms

• (to adhere): cleave, cling; see also Thesaurus:adhere
• (to stop moving): jam, stall; see also Thesaurus:stop
• (to tolerate): live with, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (persist): abide, carry on; see also Thesaurus:persevere
• (to remain loyal): stand by, stick by
• (to hesitate): falter, waver; see also Thesaurus:hesitate
• (to be puzzled at): puzzle
• (to attach with glue): agglutinate, conglutinate, glue, gum, paste
• (to place): pop, set down
• (to press into with a sharp point): pierce, prick, puncture
• (to fix on a pointed instrument): fix, impale, stake, run through, transfix
• (to bring to a halt): stump, thwart
• (to have sexual intercourse): have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

Note: Terms derived from the noun are found above.

Translations

See also

Adjective

stick (comparative sticker, superlative stickest)

1. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.

   A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.

   A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.

Usage notes

• The adjective is more informal than nonstandard due to the prevalence of examples such as "non-stick pan" or "stick plaster".
• The comparative and superlative remain nonstandard (vs. stickier and stickiest) and are sometimes seen inbetween quotation marks to reflect it.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly derived from the Yiddish schtick.

Noun

stick (plural sticks)

1. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.

Anagrams

• ticks

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English stick.

Noun

stick

1. stick
2. wood, firewood
3. tree, forest

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed shortenings from several English compounds, in all cases equivalent to a borrowing from English stick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?k/
• Hyphenation: stick
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

stick m (plural sticks, diminutive stickje n)

1. A hockey stick.
2. A joystick, stick-shaped control device.
3. A memory stick to store IT data.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

stick

1. singular imperative of sticken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sticken

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

stick n

1. a sting; a bite from an insect
2. (card games) a trick

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: tikki

Verb

stick

1. imperative of sticka.

Anagrams

• ticks