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sticky
adj stickier, stickiest
- 1. Covered with something that is tacky or gluey.
2. Able or likely to stick to other surfaces.
- Thesaurus: viscous, gluey, adhesive, clinging, glutinous, gummy, syrupy; Antonym: dry.
4. colloq
- Said of a situation, etc: difficult; awkward; unpleasant.
- stickies, stickied, stickying
1. To make something sticky.
adverb
noun
- colloq
To suffer an unpleasant end or death.
- To act in an awkward, sometimes unpredictable, way over it.
- Example: She can be a bit sticky about who she gives the keys to
