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sticks to someone's ribs

sticks to someone's ribs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stick to someone's ribs.

Meaning of stick to someone's ribs

Verb

stick to someone's ribs (third-person singular simple present sticks to someone's ribs, present participle sticking to someone's ribs, simple past and past participle stuck to someone's ribs)

  1. (idiomatic) To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency.
    • When I came to the cold lunch and fried breakfast poor Evans' face fell; he evidently doesn't much believe in the virtue of food, unless it is in the form of a hoosh and has some chance of sticking to one's ribs.1905, Robert F. Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 2 (2014 Cambridge University Press edition), p. 274 (Google books)

Questions about sticks to someone's ribs

What is sticks to someone's ribs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sticks to someone's ribs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stick to someone's ribs.

Words near sticks to someone's ribs in the dictionary

  1. sticks to one's guns
  2. sticks to one's knitting
  3. sticks to one's last
  4. sticks to one's post
  5. sticks to one's text
  6. sticks to someone's ribs
  7. sticks together
  8. sticks up
  9. sticks up for
  10. sticks with
  11. sticks-and-carrots

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