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stuck it out

stuck it out is the simple past and past participle of stick it out.

Meaning of stick it out

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To persist or continue to the end.
    • Plenty of people begin the training, but few stick it out for the year or two necessary to become proficient.

Questions about stuck it out

What is stuck it out the simple past and past participle of?
Stuck it out is the simple past and past participle of stick it out.

Words near stuck it out in the dictionary

  1. stuck in someone's gullet
  2. stuck in someone's throat
  3. stuck in the mud
  4. stuck in the Stone Age
  5. stuck in time
  6. stuck it out
  7. stuck it to
  8. stuck it to the man
  9. stuck like Chuck
  10. stuck like shit
  11. stuck like shit to a blanket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stuck it out (page history and authors); stick it out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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