sticky

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Tending to stick

   Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

   • Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?
   • Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits.
2. 2

   Difficult, awkward.

   • This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.
   • GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives.
3. 3

   Of a death

   Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.

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   1. 4

      Of weather

      Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.

      • The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.
   2. 5

      Mawkish, sentimental.

      • Love you and miss you and wish you all the sticky things one wishes at this season for someone one loves.
   3. 6

      Tending to stay the same

      Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.

      • a sticky price; sticky wages
   4. 7

      Persistent.

      • We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.
   5. 8

      Appearing on all virtual desktops.

   6. 9

      Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

   7. 10

      Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.

      • A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.
   8. 11

      Resembling or characteristic of a stick.

      • What's something that is brown and sticky? A stick
   9. 12

      A sticky note, such as a post-it note.

      • Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.
   10. 13

       A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in…

       A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

   11. 14

       A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.

   12. 15

       A sweet dessert wine.

   13. 16

       Sticky-icky

       Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.

       • We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up.
       • Still smoking sticky, it ain't no other option / Not for made niggas, and I'm never stopping
       • As drunk as I was, all I could think about was getting some sticky down my lungs.
   14. 17

       Wax.

   15. 18

       to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

   16. 19

       A member of the Official Irish Republican Army.

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