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stuck to someone's ribs

stuck to someone's ribs is the simple past and past participle 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 stuck to someone's ribs

What is stuck to someone's ribs the simple past and past participle of?
Stuck to someone's ribs is the simple past and past participle of stick to someone's ribs.

Words near stuck to someone's ribs in the dictionary

  1. stuck to one's guns
  2. stuck to one's knitting
  3. stuck to one's last
  4. stuck to one's post
  5. stuck to one's text
  6. stuck to someone's ribs
  7. stuck together
  8. stuck twin syndrome
  9. stuck up
  10. stuck up for
  11. stuck with

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