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noun

Sticker n.

One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses. (Colloq.)

(Mus.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.

Same as Paster, 2. (Political Cant, U.S.)

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"Sticker" Quotes from Famous Books

... "vehemently protested" against this phrase, saying that he "put in six years of hard committee work to the astonishment of the vestrymen who had not expected (him) to be a man of business and a sticker at it." But I am still of opinion that the secondary effects of those six years on his knowledge of affairs and the lessons he has drawn from them in his writings and speeches have been of greater value to his innumerable ...

— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... to confess 't is a sticker—that name," he admitted. "And it's the name we want, of course, to tell us who they are—since it seems the boy don't know, from what you said last night. I was in hopes, by this morning, you'd have found out ...

— Just David • Eleanor H. Porter

... paper over, "here's the mail sticker on this side, with your father's printed name and address pasted on it just as it ...

— The High School Boys' Canoe Club • H. Irving Hancock

... Thacker, reaching behind the official desk for his bottle of smuggled brandy. "You're not so slow. I can do it. What was I consul at Sandakan for? I never knew till now. In a week I'll have the eagle bird with the frog-sticker blended in so you'd think you were born with it. I brought a set of the needles and ink just because I was sure you'd drop in some ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... light on an automobile or the beak of a Park Row panhandler. Your knees knock together like a man who sees a collector for an installment house. The only things it don't attack is your corns. They should rename it mucilage flu because it certainly is a sticker; you have as much pep as an Ingersol watch with the main spring on a two weeks vacation; but cheer up derie, there ain't goin to be any job fer any undertaker. No foreman fur a funeral is gonna say "All those desirin to kiss ...

— Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie • Barney Stone

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