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stick up

VERB
  1. 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. rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat

How To Use stick up In A Sentence

  • Stick up our invoice for your cash. The Sun
  • Don't allow those big boys to bully you stick up for yourself!
  • 'That's a bit unkind,' said Pat 'After all, Sadie's kind and generous and we all like to be friends with her because of those things, not because she's well-off And Pam was a nice little thing, though she's such a swotter j m not friends with her because I want to pick her brains but because there's something rather nice about her, in spite of her head always being inside a book' 'Well, stick up for Prudence if you like,' said Janet I think she's a humbug I can't stick her goody-goody ways Can you, Bobby? ' Summer Term At St Clare's
  • Bet they were under the misguided impression that our Parliament would stick up for them but they forgot about vote-catching, and the anti-Englishness of our present government. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • He has nowhere to stick up his posters.
  • The bizzies just stick up for them, minute they're there they're around them.
  • Champ an 'stick up for him too; he's good blood, an' ef he did go under for a spell, he ain't no worse 'n the rest, nor half ez bad; for Champ went in _of his own accord -- of his own accord_, "he repeated significantly," an' don't you forget thet, Aileen! Flamsted quarries
  • But I would like to stick up for Staffordshire bull terriers. The Sun
  • The road itself is pockmarked with shell holes, while unexploded missiles and bombs stick up from the dirt of surrounding fields.
  • Don't allow those big boys to bully you stick up for yourself!
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