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up the stick

up the stick prepositional phrase: pregnant.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (slang) Pregnant.
    • ‘The kids go for a drive in a borrowed car, park on another street between the corner lamps, and then there’s ructions because some little tabby gets up the stick.’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 76

Questions about up the stick

What does up the stick mean?
Up the stick means pregnant.
What part of speech is up the stick?
Up the stick is a prepositional phrase.

Words near up the stick in the dictionary

  1. up the Oxo Tower
  2. up the pole
  3. up the proverbial
  4. up the river
  5. up the spout
  6. up the stick
  7. up the stump
  8. up the wall
  9. up the walls
  10. up the wazoo
  11. up the yin-yang

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