stuck
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
stuck
AdjectiveEdit
stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)
- 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.
- Unable to progress with a task.
- I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.
- No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.
- There are several ways to close a stuck program.
- (slang, archaic) In the situation of having no money.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
trapped and unable to move
unable to progress
Etymology 2Edit
Compare stoccado.
NounEdit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)