stick together

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

1. ambitransitiveTo physically combine or join together by adhesion.

   It can be tricky to get the edges stuck together neatly. Alternatively, you can pinch them upward like a ruffled pie crust edge. When all the edges are stuck together, poke the straw into the little hole in the top where the points meet, and blow so the box inflates.

   2002, Georgia Sargeant, Celie Fago, Livia McRee, Polymer Clay, →ISBN, page 33

   Synonyms: cleave, cling, join, merge, wed, coalesce, fuse

2. idiomaticintransitiveTo remain united, to stay together in association or alliance.

   Her’s Parſon Ball an honeſt Prieſt, and telles vs that in charitie, VVe may ſticke together in ſuch quarrels honeſtly.

   1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I

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   The lines had realised that they had better stop fighting each other, and stick together in the face of the onslaught from the motor buses that were making horse buses obsolete.

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 158

   They need to stick together so they don’t get eaten, but different animals might want to head in different directions at any one time.

   2015 June 18, Ed Yong, “Baboon-Trackers Herald New Age of Animal Behaviour Research”, in National Geographic

   You and I till the end, don't need to pretend / Again and again, we'll stick together / Everything is alright, with you by my side / We won't say goodbye, we'll stick together

   2016, “Stick Together”, in Forgetting This, performed by Elijah N