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stick up


phrasal verb with stickverbuk /stɪk/ us /stɪk/stuck | stuck
to point up above the surface of something and not lie flat: 竖起;向上伸出
When I get up in the morning, my hair is always sticking up.我早上起床的时候,头发总是竖着。
stick up out ofThere were some large rocks sticking up out of the water.有一些大石头突出水面。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Protruding and sticking out
beetling
bristly
bug
bug out
bulbous
bulge
ledge
male
outcrop
overhang
overhanging
peek
poke
project
protrusive
protuberance
protuberant
proud
stick
stick out

stick something/someone up


phrasal verb with stickverbuk /stɪk/ us /stɪk/stuck | stuck
mainly USinformal
to steal from a place or person, using a gun as a threat: 持枪抢劫
Did you hear that someone stuck up the post office last night?你听说昨晚有人持枪抢劫邮局了吗?
See also
stick-upold-fashionedinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stealing
abscond
abscond with someone/something
aggravated burglary
anti-burglar
anti-burglary
eavesdrop
hot-wire
housebreaking
jemmy
jimmy
job
piratically
plunder
poach
poaching
porch piracy
rustle
rustling
snaffle
snitch
stick-up
noun[ C ]
 old-fashionedinformaluk /ˈstɪk.ʌp/ us /ˈstɪk.ʌp/
the act of threatening someone with a gun in order to steal from them: 持枪抢劫
Two men ran into the bank, shouting "This is a stick-up!"两名男子冲进银行,大叫“打劫了!”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stealing
abscond
abscond with someone/something
aggravated burglary
anti-burglar
anti-burglary
eavesdrop
hot-wire
housebreaking
jemmy
jimmy
job
piratically
plunder
poach
poaching
porch piracy
rustle
rustling
snaffle
snitch

stick something up | American Dictionary


stick something up


phrasal verb with stickverbus/stɪk/past tense and past participlestuckus/stʌk/
infmlpast tense and past participlestuck
to use a gun to steal something from a person or place:
Did you hear that someone stuck the post office up?

stick up


phrasal verb with stickverbus/stɪk/past tense and past participlestuckus/stʌk/
past tense and past participlestuck
to reach above the surface of something:
A few green shoots were sticking up out of the ground.

Examples of stick up


stick up
The stick-up is by the banks of their customers for the charges that they have introduced.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He is then asked by police to give a handwriting sample, writing the words from the stick-up note at the insurance company.
From
Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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