stick up

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To rob at gunpoint.
   • I think they intend to stick up the bank.
   • What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be prominent; to point upwards.
   • No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.
3. (intransitive) To speak or act in defence (of).
   • Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.
4. (intransitive) To defy, to confront, to stand up to.
5. (intransitive) To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)
6. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking.
   • Stick up the postcard with a bit of tape.