stick up | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seestick,‎up.To put or post up bysticking.Stick upthe postcard with a bit of tape.; (transitive,idiomatic)Torobatgunpoint.I think they intend tostick upthe bank.2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page27:What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming tostick upT.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.2023, VOID Interactive,Ready or Not (video game), scene: Mission brief, level/area: Thank You, Come Again:Listen up, at around 2300 we received multiple 911 calls from the 4U Gas Station at 5th and Vandrake in Southside, we believe this to be astick uprobbery with multiple armed suspects.; (intransitive,idiomatic)To be prominent; to point upwards.No matter how much I brush it, my hair alwayssticks up.; (intransitive,withfor)To speak or act in defence (of).Don't let them push you around,stick upfor yourself.; (intransitive,withto)Todefy, toconfront, tostand up to.; (intransitive,withto)To maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)

Examples:

EN: And didn't I always stick up for you?
ES: ¿No te protegí siempre?
EN: I threw my stick up to knock down some plums
ES: Cogí un palo para derribar algunas ciruelas
EN: That's it, go right ahead and stick up for her.
ES: Sigue defendiéndola.
EN: The boy leaves your home when you tell him not to go. He steals your money and still you stick up for him.
ES: El muchacho sale de casa cuando le dijiste que no saliera te roba tu dinero y sigues defendiéndole.
EN: I'd stick up for my father, too, even if I knew he was guilty.
ES: Yo también apoyaría a mi padre aunque supiera que era culpable.
EN: You madden me when you stick up for that man.
ES: Me cansa que sigas apoyando a ese hombre.
EN: You are pretty clever, aren't you? Shoving me around just because I haven't got a Park Avenue Accent and a family to stick up and holler.
ES: Te creerás que puedes faltarme sólo porque no tengo acento pijo ni una familia que me defienda.
EN: Now I will decide when we make our next clean up right here in Dalton. head for the border... before something happens we will stick up the next stage of the mine grab the rodeo receipt, and clear out.
ES: Así que haremos nuestra última limpieza aquí en Dalton... y nos dirigiremos a la frontera.
EN: That's the kind you want to stick up before the firing squad.
ES: Es la clase de hombre que llevarías ante un pelotón de fusilamiento.
EN: Just stick up for your rights when they get fresh with you.
ES: Basta con que sepas defender tus derechos cuando se metan contigo.
EN: And then I pulled a phony gun on 'em, told them to stick up their mitts, and I grabbed their rods, and I made 'em step out ahead of me, to the yard, like they was takin' me to the warden's office.
ES: Les apunté con un arma falsa. Les hice levantar las manos y los desarmé a todos. Los llevé como si me llevaran a la oficina del director.
EN: Killer mannion's gonna stick up this bank at closing time.
ES: Mannion viene hacia aquí.
EN: Soft-boiled, that you don't stick up for a kidnapped girl?
ES: ¿Débiles que no defienden a una niña?
EN: - Sure, stick up for him!
ES: - ¡Seguro, soy justo!
EN: It means, girlie, that your friend here tried to stick up a restaurant.
ES: Jovencita, su amigo trató de asaltar un restaurante.

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