Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stick fat

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English

Syllables: stick- -fat
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To persist through a difficult time.

Australian usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

""RESEARCHERS have found even with extremely poor germination rates farmers are better ‘sticking fat’ with their canola crops rather than resowing.""
""I’m a good person for sticking fat? I’m a good person for acknowledging that even though my team seem to have completely missed all boats of skill and ability this year, I am a good person for still wearing the colours?""

Usage

Inflected Forms

sticks fat (present, singular) sticking fat (participle, present) stuck fat (participle, past) stuck fat (past)

Rhymes With

the fact that give someone their hat lying flat mountain rat lat. bto flat @ wassat antirat chowkat stratt

Questions

What does stick fat mean?: To persist through a difficult time.

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