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sticking fat

sticking fat is the present participle and gerund of stick fat.

Meaning of stick fat

Verb

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

  1. (Australia, colloquial) 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

Questions about sticking fat

What is sticking fat the present participle and gerund of?
Sticking fat is the present participle and gerund of stick fat.

Words near sticking fat in the dictionary

  1. sticking around
  2. sticking at
  3. sticking at nothing
  4. sticking by
  5. sticking down
  6. sticking fat
  7. sticking in one's gizzard
  8. sticking in someone's craw
  9. sticking in someone's gullet
  10. sticking in someone's throat
  11. sticking it out

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