stick up

(past tense and past participle stuck) — phrasal verb with stick

/stɪk/ verb (past tense and past participle stuck /stʌk/)

Definition

› to reach above the surface of something: A few green shoots were sticking up out of the ground.

(Definition of stick up from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having

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