stick together

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Meaning: (ambitransitive)To physicallycombineorjointogether byadhesion.2002, Georgia Sargeant, Celie Fago, Livia McRee,Polymer Clay‎[1],→ISBN, page33:It can be tricky to get the edgesstuck togetherneatly. Alternatively, you can pinch them upward like a ruffled pie crust edge. When all the edges arestuck together, poke the straw into the little hole in the top where the points meet, and blow so the box inflates.; (idiomatic,intransitive)To remainunited, tostaytogether inassociationoralliance.1593, anonymous author,The Life and Death of Iacke Straw[…],Act I:Her’sParſonBallan honeſt Prieſt, and telles vs that in charitie,VVe mayſticke togetherin ſuch quarrels honeſtly.2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page158:The lines had realised that they had better stop fighting each other, andstick togetherin the face of the onslaught from the motor buses that were making horse buses obsolete.2015June 18, Ed Yong, “Baboon-Trackers Herald New Age of Animal Behaviour Research”, inNational Geographic‎[2]:They need tostick togetherso they don’t get eaten, but different animals might want to head in different directions at any one time.2016, “Stick Together”, inForgetting This, performed by Elijah N:You and I till the end, don't need to pretend / Again and again, we'llstick together/ Everything is alright, with you by my side / We won't say goodbye, we'llstick together

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