stick around
verb
stuck around; sticking around; sticks around
intransitive verb
: to stay or wait about : linger
Synonyms
- abide
- dwell
- hang around
- remain
- stay
- tarry
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
we stuck around afterwards to help clean up
Word History
First Known Use
1878, in the meaning defined above
sticking around 1 of 2
adjective
as in running on
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- running on
- holding on
- holding up
- keeping up
- staying
- carrying through
- lasting
- enduring
- abiding
- persisting
- surviving
- tarrying
- residual
- remaining
- continuing
- lingering
- biding
- perduring
- leftover
- prevailing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dying (down)
- letting up
- waning
- winding up
- subsiding
- moderating
- abating
- ebbing
- ending
- dying
- passing
- finishing
- concluding
- closing
- stopping
- terminating
- leaving off
- lapsing
- expiring
- quitting
- discontinuing
- ceasing
- desisting
sticking around
2 of 2verb
as in hanging around
to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time we stuck around afterwards to help clean up Synonyms & Similar Words
- hanging around
- remaining
- waiting
- staying
- dwelling
- hanging on
- holding on
- abiding
- lingering
- awaiting
- tarrying
- loitering
- dawdling
- overstaying
- dallying
- outstaying
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- taking off
- getting off
- buzzing (off)
- shoving (off)
- pulling out
- packing (up or off)
- bailing out
- bugging out
- walking out
- clearing out
- pushing off
- pushing on
- peeling off
- moving
- leaving
- going
- exiting
- running away
- departing
- clearing off
- getting out
- cutting out
- bailing
- quitting
- piking (out or off)
- going off
- flying
- escaping
- skipping
- fleeing
- vamoosing
- evacuating
- absconding
- booking
- scramming
- decamping
- abandoning
- forsaking
- vacating
- deserting
- scatting
