Usually means: Adheres or clings to surfaces.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word sticky:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sticky: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sticky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sticky: The Word Spy
  4. sticky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sticky: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sticky: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sticky, sticky: Wordnik
  8. sticky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sticky: Wiktionary
  10. sticky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sticky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sticky: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sticky: Dictionary.com
  14. sticky (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sticky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sticky (comics), Sticky (economics), Sticky (musician), Sticky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sticky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sticky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sticky: Rhymezone
  20. sticky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sticky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sticky: Free Dictionary
  23. sticky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sticky: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. sticky: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  2. sticky: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. sticky: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sticky: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sticky, sticky, sticky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Sticky, sticky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stickier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
adjective:  Difficult, awkward.
adjective:  Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
adjective:  Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
adjective:  Mawkish, sentimental.
adjective:  (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
adjective:  (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
adjective:  (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
adjective:  (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
adjective:  (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
adjective:  (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
noun:  A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
noun:  (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
noun:  (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
noun:  (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
noun:  (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
noun:  (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Wax.
verb:  (Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
noun:  (slang) A member of the Official Irish Republican Army.

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