stick fat

verb

To persist through a difficult time.

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Meanings

verbstick fat (third-person singular simple present sticks fat, present participle sticking fat, simple past and past participle stuck fat)

present singular third person sticks fat · participle present sticking fat · participle past stuck fat · past stuck fat

  1. AustraliacolloquialTo persist through a difficult time.

    "RESEARCHERS have found even with extremely poor germination rates farmers are better ‘sticking fat’ with their canola crops rather than resowing."

    2015 May 19, Gregor Heard, “Hybrid canola a resowing winner”, in Farm Online National, retrieved 23 Aug 2018
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    "I’m a good person for sticking fat? I’m a good person for acknowledging that even though my team seem to have completely missed all boats of skill and ability this year, I am a good person for still wearing the colours?"

    2018 April 30, Yvette Wroby, “Round 6 - Hawthorn v St Kilda: Sympathy and Time Out”, in The Footy Almanac, retrieved 23 Aug 2018

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with stick fat

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APA

stick fat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stick%20fat

MLA

“stick fat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stick%20fat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stick fat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stick%20fat.

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