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Stick around   /stɪk ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Stick around

verb
1.
Be available or ready for a certain function or service.  Synonyms: stand by, stick about.
2.
Stay put (in a certain place).  Synonyms: stay, stay put, stick.  "Stay put in the corner here!" , "Stick around and you will learn something!"






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"Stick around" Quotes from Famous Books



... we want to go over to the Field and get hold of an instructor," answered Frank. "Now the war is over, the rush is over too and we are taking our time over here. Stick around all you want to, Bill; ...
— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb

... says you are not. But because of your family nationality, I supposed you would want to finish out the string with the R.F.C. and," he reached over and tousled McGee's mop of flaming red hair, "I'm just fool enough to want to stick around where you are—you little shrimp! So I thought I ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke

... mayor's office," he called to the girl at his private telephone exchange. "Will you 'stick around' to see the fuss?" he inquired with grim pleasure, as he hung ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester

... they wouldn't let us women in on their feed deals. They go out and fill up on beefsteak while we have to stick around and drown our sorrows in a cheese sandwich. And goodness knows that while they are nourishing they don't give you ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey

... Wall Street and into the offices of the top brokerage firms and into the sanctum sanctorums of the wealthiest of mucky-mucks but had been too impatient to stick around long enough to possibly hear something that might be profitable. He admitted, grudgingly, that he wouldn't have known what to listen for anyway. Frustrated there, he had gone back uptown and finally located the hangout of one of the more renown sports promoters who was ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)

... sprang toward two others who were seeking to batter the life out of Cameron as he lay gripping his enemy by the throat with one hand and with the other by the wrist to check a knife thrust. Swinging his stick around his head and repeating his cry for help, Martin made Cameron's assailants give back a space and before they could renew the attack Sergeant Crisp burst open the door of the Barracks, and, followed by a Slim young constable and the Superintendent, came rushing with shouts upon ...
— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor



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