Synonyms for stick up
stick up

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1. hold up, stick upverb

   rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat

   Synonyms:
   go, live, detain, last, delay, support, hold up, hold out, hold, sustain, live on, hold water, endure, stand up, withstand, defy, survive

2. stand up, stick upverb

   defend against attack or criticism

   "He stood up for his friend"; "She stuck up for the teacher who was accused of harassing the student"

   Synonyms:
   place upright, rise, hold up, bristle, get up, stand, stand up, arise, uprise, hold water

Matched Categories

1. • Crime
   • Defend
   • Rob

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1. Bobby Bank/Getty:

   I was very unstable. I wasn’t thinking right. So I hooked up with these guys and all of a sudden I’m a stick-up artist. I stuck up every nightclub in New York, i’m no angel.

2. Sunny Hostin:

   There was something chivalrous about Joe Biden saying, you know, if Joe Biden said that and we were in high school I ’d take Joe Biden out back and I ’d kick Joe Biden butt, i thought, Joy Behar know, there’s something about that. Because Joe Biden was also speaking at an event where Joe Biden was encouraging men to stick up for women, not be just bystanders. So I don’t know.

3. Page Martin:

   Stick up for yourself, stick up for your rights. I'm not just doing this for myself I'm doing this for all breastfeeding mothers.

4. Gerard Way:

   You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands and a lot of shitty people and if any of those people call you names because of what you look like or because they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream Fuck you!

5. Gen. Peyton C. March:

   Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.