sticky-up

adjective

Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.

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Meanings

adjectivesticky-up (comparative more sticky-up, superlative most sticky-up)

comparative more sticky-up · superlative most sticky-up

  1. informalSticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.

    All of the Fairy Wrens (fourteen in number) have "sticky-up" tails[.]

    1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 196
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    "There was a light in the painting-room window," he said, tremulously, "and a head with black sticky-up hair all round. Then it went away."

    1919 August 16, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 50

Origin

From stick up + -y.

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Chicago

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