stuck

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstʌk/

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /stʊk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

stuck

1. simple past and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)

stuck (comparative more stuck, superlative most stuck)

1. Unable to move.

   Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.

   If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.

2. Unable to progress with a task.

   I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.

3. No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

   There are several ways to close a stuck program.

4. (slang, archaic) In the situation of having no money.

• (having no money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Compare stoccado.

stuck (plural stucks)

1. (obsolete) A thrust, especially with a lance or sword.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], line 160:

     If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.

     See Wikisource

• “stuck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• suckt, tucks