stuck

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)

comparative more stuck · superlative most stuck

1. Unable to move.

   Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.

   2 more examples

   If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.

   The day of our arrival two belugas had accidentally become grounded in the shallows of a river delta near the station, and now that the tide had gone out, they seemed helplessly stuck.

   1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, pages 594-595

   Synonyms: static, unmovable, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, inanimate, inert

2. Unable to progress with a task.

   I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.

3. No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

   There are several ways to close a stuck program.

4. archaicslangIn the situation of having no money.

   Synonyms: broke, penniless, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly

plural stucks

1. obsoleteA thrust, especially with a lance or sword.

   If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], line 160

plural Stucks

1. A surname.