Definition of "sticky"

sticky

/ˈstɪki/

adjective
comparative stickier, superlative stickiest
1. Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
  Quotations
  Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits.
  2016 June 5, Thomas Manch, “CuriousCity: What happens to my library books when I return them?”, in Stuff‎, archived from the original on 2019-05-04
2. Difficult, awkward.
  Quotations
  Among the books Mum brought me to read when I was a child were The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, as well as their author Frances Hodgson Burnett's smash hit, Little Lord Fauntleroy. I haven't met an adult my age who has read this book but I did so several times. It's a sticky book, guided by that strange Victorian obsession with "the little mother" – the same obsession that Virginia Woolf, a child of Victorian parents, grappled with in her diaries and her fiction. Somehow, though, I learned to overlook the archaic, to be open to the oddnesses of different eras, and to read for something else.
  2020 June 25, Tegan Bennett Daylight, “My mother taught me the joy of reading. I remember her through books”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 2023-05-27
3. Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
  Quotations
  Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull.
  2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won’t believe”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 2022-10-13
4. Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
  Quotations
  The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.
  2008, Robert K. Fitts, Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball
5. (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
6. (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
7. (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
8. (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
9. (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
10. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
noun
plural stickies
1. A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
2. (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
3. (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
4. (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
5. (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
  Quotations
  We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up.
  2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, page 268
  Still smoking sticky, it ain't no other option / Not for made niggas, and I'm never stopping
  2011 April 12, “Made Men”‎performed by Rick Ross
  As drunk as I was, all I could think about was getting some sticky down my lungs.
  2014, Jagada Chambers, Based on a True Story
verb
third-person singular simple present stickies, present participle stickying, simple past and past participle stickied
1. (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

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