stick out

Language: en

Meaning: (transitive)Toprotrude.Hestuck outhis tongue at me.; (intransitive)Toprotrude; toextendbeyond.His tongue wassticking out.I can fit the pipe in my car, but one end willstick outfrom the back.1921June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, inHarper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockworkstuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.1900May 17,L[yman] Frank Baum,The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.:Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co.,→OCLC:"Your house did, anyway," replied the little old woman, with a laugh, "and that is the same thing. See!" she continued, pointing to the corner of the house. "There are her two feet, stillsticking outfrom under a block of wood."Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet weresticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.; (idiomatic,intransitive)To beprominent,noticeable, orobtrusive.Synonyms:stand out;see alsoThesaurus:stand outThe one red wall reallysticks outamong all the creamy ones.; Topersistuntil the end;stick it out.Synonyms:seeThesaurus:persist

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