stick fat
stick fat verb: to persist through a difficult time.
Verb
stick fat (third-person singular simple present sticks fat, present participle sticking fat, simple past and past participle stuck fat)
- To persist through a difficult time.
- "RESEARCHERS have found even with extremely poor germination rates farmers are better ‘sticking fat’ with their canola crops rather than resowing."2015 May 19, Gregor Heard, “Hybrid canola a resowing winner”, in Farm Online National, retrieved 23 Aug 2018
- "I’m a good person for sticking fat? I’m a good person for acknowledging that even though my team seem to have completely missed all boats of skill and ability this year, I am a good person for still wearing the colours?"2018 April 30, Yvette Wroby, “Round 6 - Hawthorn v St Kilda: Sympathy and Time Out”, in The Footy Almanac, retrieved 23 Aug 2018
Forms of stick fat
| third-person singular present | sticks fat |
|---|---|
| present participle | sticking fat |
| past participle | stuck fat |
| past | stuck fat |
Words that rhyme with stick fat
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- mat
- slat
- blat
- matt
- matte
- nat
- pat
- sat
- scat
- sprat
- vat
- old hat
- phat
- plat
- prat
- rabat
- spat
- tat
- @
- acrobat
- anticat
- antifat
- antirat
- batt
- big cat
- Cheshire cat
- clat
- combat
- gat
- glatt
- gnat
- manat
- Montserrat
- plait
- scrat
- skat
- stat
- the fact that
- twat
- whereat
- begat
- Bratt
- BTO flat
- chowkat
- dassie rat
- dat
- despotat
- drat
Questions about stick fat
- What does stick fat mean?
- Stick fat means to persist through a difficult time.
- What part of speech is stick fat?
- Stick fat is a verb.
- What is the past tense of stick fat?
- The past tense of stick fat is stuck fat.
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