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stuck to

stuck to is the simple past and past participle of stick to.

Meaning of stick to

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To persist; to continue (to use, do, etc.)
    • I have seen all the fancy electric toothbrushes, but I'm going to stick to the old-fashioned kind.
  2. (idiomatic) To follow and remain close to.
    • The suspect doubled back through an alley, but the detective stuck to him like glue.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, to.

Questions about stuck to

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

Words near stuck to in the dictionary

  1. stuck record
  2. stuck records
  3. stuck someone on
  4. stuck the knife in
  5. stuck the landing
  6. stuck to
  7. stuck to business
  8. stuck to one's guns
  9. stuck to one's knitting
  10. stuck to one's last
  11. stuck to one's post

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stuck to (page history and authors); stick to (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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