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Sticker   /stˈɪkər/   Listen
Sticker

noun
1.
A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.  Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, thorn.
2.
An adhesive label.  Synonyms: gummed label, paster.
3.
A particularly difficult or baffling question or problem.  Synonyms: poser, stumper, toughie.
4.
A short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing.  Synonym: dagger.



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"Sticker" Quotes from Famous Books



... him? me!" He shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid he'll sell us, that's all. As to the fear, my sticker has too ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue

... going to get rid of such a sticker?" groaned Thad, as though at a loss to know what ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson

... boy made his appearance to herald the approach of the glories of the evening. From that date the die of Mary Anderson's destiny was cast. The theater became her world. She looked with admiring interest on a super, or even a bill-sticker, as they passed the windows of her father's house; and an actor seen in the streets in the flesh filled her with the same reverent awe and admiration as though the gods had descended from their serene heights to mingle in the dust with common mortals. We are not sure that she still retains this ...
— Mary Anderson • J. M. Farrar

... That he is not ready to take up with everything that is ungenteel he gives a proof, when he refuses, though on the brink of starvation, to become bonnet to the thimble-man, an office, which, though profitable, is positively ungenteel. Ah! but some sticker-up for gentility will exclaim, "The hero did not refuse this office from an insurmountable dislike to its ungentility, but merely from a feeling of principle." Well! the writer is not fond of argument, and he will admit that such was the case; he admits that it was a love of principle, rather ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... in the thing! Perhaps he's afraid that when he says good-bye to my studio he says good-bye to you too. Or perhaps the two reasons govern him—love of money, love of woman. Anyhow he's a sticker!" ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens

... pretty well convinced that Riccabocca was dishonest, and quietly sent for those to whom the "combination" was indebted: namely, the printer and publisher of the Daily Bulletin, the agent of the music-hall, and the bill-sticker who had posted notices of the entertainment. These parties arrived while Philip ...
— The Young Musician - or, Fighting His Way • Horatio Alger

... Long's a sticker when he hits out on a man's trail," said Price. "Still, I guess you'd be safe in here for a while. There ain't ...
— The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts

... pig. I almost had a round wi' the landlord; but they towld me it wos the same iverywhere. So I wint and had another in the nixt shop I sees, jist to try; and it was thrue. Then a Yankee spies my knife,—the great pig-sticker that Bob Short swopped wi' me for my junk o' plum-duff off the Cape. It seems they've run out o' sich articles just at this time, and would give handfuls o' goold for wan. So says I, 'Wot'll ...
— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne

... true he has not yet tried every office; he has not, for instance, been Chancellor of the Exchequer, though his unbounded success in the Duchy of Lancaster amply shows what his capabilities as a Chancellor are. But as a soldier, a pig-sticker and a polo-player he is rapidly gaining pre-eminence, and as an author and journalist his voice is already like a swan's amongst screech-owls. (I admit that that last bit ought to have been in Latin, but I cannot remember what the Latin for a screech-owl is. I have an idea that it increases in the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, November 17, 1920 • Various



Words linked to "Sticker" :   label, stiletto, haft, dirk, aculeus, helve, bodkin, hilt, poniard, kirpan, glochid, stick, bookplate, creese, kris, crease, ex libris, toughie, problem, glochidium, knife



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