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stick-up

stick-up is the alternative form of stickup.

Meaning of stickup

Noun

stickup (plural stickups)

  1. A robbery at gunpoint.
    • He lived in a nice apartment. He had no reputation in the neighborhood as a stickup guy or a sexual predator.2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
  2. A small-diameter tree branch or limb that extends out of the water in flooded or submerged timber, as in a lake or river.
  3. (slang) A wing collar with white bow tie, worn with school dress by distinguished senior boys at Eton College.

Forms of stick-up

pluralstick-ups

Questions about stick-up

What is stick-up the alternative form of?
Stick-up is the alternative form of stickup.

Words near stick-up in the dictionary

  1. stick-tights
  2. stick-to-it-iveness
  3. stick-to-itiveness
  4. stick-to-itness
  5. stick-to-your-guns
  6. stick-up
  7. stick-ups
  8. stick-welded
  9. stick-with-it-ness
  10. stickability
  11. stickable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stick-up (page history and authors); stickup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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