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a sticky end in British English British informal an unpleasant death See full dictionary entry for endExamples of 'a sticky end' in a sentencea sticky end Unfortunately, this 'gift' has also led them all to a sticky end.Some insist that he will meet a sticky end much sooner.The unsustainable growth of the public sector has come to a sticky end.His season had come to a sticky end.Over the centuries many a vessel must have come to a sticky end down there.State-run economies don't work and need market reforms - but this experiment may come to a sticky end.In the film we are told that her sailing adventures come to a sticky end.Together, can they uncover how the boss of a sweets company met a sticky end?We were beginning to wonder whether he'd met a sticky end that nobody had told us about.And some of the characters, she suggested in an interview this week, would be coming to a sticky end. |