stick up for sth/sb
informal— phrasal verb with stick uk/stɪk/us/stɪk/verb stuck, stuck
C1 to support or defend someone or something, especially when that person or thing is being criticized:
I can stick up for myself.
It's sweet the way he sticks up for his little brother.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- countenance
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- speak
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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