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Stick around   /stɪk ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Stick around

verb
1.
Be available or ready for a certain function or service.  Synonyms: stand by, stick about.
2.
Stay put (in a certain place).  Synonyms: stay, stay put, stick.  "Stay put in the corner here!" , "Stick around and you will learn something!"






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"Stick around" Quotes from Famous Books



... want you to get hurt, kid," replied Bud, smiling at the other's enthusiasm, "but I have an idea that I can use you somehow. Just stick around for a day or two and I'll show you how to 'walk' sheep so your ...
— The Free Range • Francis William Sullivan

... tired," continued Perry severely. "You call yourselves the Adventure Club and start out to see some sport, and then the first time there's a heavy mist you want to stick around an old harbour for fear you'll get damp! We've been going two whole days now, and we haven't ...
— The Adventure Club Afloat • Ralph Henry Barbour

... down to Wall Street and into the offices of the top brokerage firms and into the sanctum sanctorums of the wealthiest of mucky-mucks but had been too impatient to stick around long enough to possibly hear something that might be profitable. He admitted, grudgingly, that he wouldn't have known what to listen for anyway. Frustrated there, he had gone back uptown and finally located the hangout of one of ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)



Words linked to "Stick around" :   stick, wait, stay in place, move



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