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stick on

stick on verb: to charge (someone) with an offence.

Verb

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

  1. (UK, slang, transitive) To charge (someone) with an offence.
    • […] took him to the nick, stuck him on, and he spent the night in the flowery.1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501
    • You can be stuck on for anything from serious misconduct to minor infringements of the police's absurdly draconian and catch-all disciplinary codes, which make it possible for a senior officer with a grudge against a junior to stick him on for almost anything. For example, the PC may have been...1995, Verbatim, volume 22, number 3, page 13

Forms of stick on

third-person singular presentsticks on
present participlesticking on
past participlestuck on
paststuck on

Questions about stick on

What does stick on mean?
Stick on means to charge (someone) with an offence.
What part of speech is stick on?
Stick on is a verb.
What is the past tense of stick on?
The past tense of stick on is stuck on.

Words near stick on in the dictionary

  1. stick notes
  2. stick nudger
  3. stick nudgers
  4. stick of furniture
  5. stick of gum
  6. stick on
  7. stick one on
  8. stick one's dick in crazy
  9. stick one's foot in it
  10. stick one's foot in one's mouth
  11. stick one's head in the sand

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