"stick fat" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-stick fat.ogg [Australia] Forms: sticks fat [present, singular, third-person], sticking fat [participle, present], stuck fat [participle, past], stuck fat [past]
Rhymes: -æt Head templates: {{en-verb|stick<,,stuck> fat}} stick fat (third-person singular simple present sticks fat, present participle sticking fat, simple past and past participle stuck fat)
  1. (Australia, colloquial) To persist through a difficult time. Tags: Australia, colloquial
    Sense id: en-stick_fat-en-verb-BvMruZWB Categories (other): Australian English

Inflected forms

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