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stuck-up

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Adjective stuck-up has 1 sense
  1. bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish - used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
    Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
Verb stick-up has 2 senses
  1. hold up, stick up - rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat
    --1 is one way to rob
    Derived form: noun stickup1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. stand up, stick up - defend against attack or criticism; "He stood up for his friend"; "She stuck up for the teacher who was accused of harassing the student"
    --2 is one way to defend, support, fend for
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
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