stick on

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

1. UKslangtransitivegovernmentTo charge (someone) with an offence.

   […] took him to the nick, stuck him on, and he spent the night in the flowery.

   1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501

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   You can be stuck on for anything from serious misconduct to minor infringements of the police's absurdly draconian and catch-all disciplinary codes, which make it possible for a senior officer with a grudge against a junior to stick him on for almost anything. For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.

   1995, Verbatim, volume 22, number 3, page 13

   But because you're under pressure for numbers and it looks good on your report that you done x number of processes, you can't come in and say 'Well, I didn't stick him on because I felt that it was a better result just to tell him off.'

   quoted in 2005, Mike McConville, Dan Shepherd, Watching Police, Watching Communities (page 200)