stick around

verb

stuck around; sticking around; sticks around

intransitive verb

: to stay or wait about : linger

Examples of stick around in a Sentence

we stuck around afterwards to help clean up
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Seidler knew that greatness isn’t required for a team to stick around in every wild-card race. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025 The new show, unfortunately, seems unlikely to have a huge viral moment like its predecessor, much less stick around for close to a decade. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2025 At the time, the assignment was seen as a critical one, assembling a crowd in the early evening that would stick around for MSNBC’s primetime schedule. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025 Here, 18 members of Forbes Coaches Council share best practices in people management leaders should embrace to meet the needs of today’s workforce and make high performers want to stick around. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stick around

Word History

First Known Use

1878, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of stick around was in 1878

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“Stick around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stick%20around. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

stick around

verb
: to stay or wait about : linger

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