stick up• Can you see that branch that's sticking up?• A church steeple stuck up above the roofs of the surrounding cottages.• His hair was white, and stuck up in tufts on his head.• He saw a hand sticking up through the snow.
stick from/out of/through etc• There was celery sticking up out of her drink.• When bulls die, we bury them with one or both horns sticking up out of the ground.
ˈstick-up noun [countableC] informalSTEAL a hold-up 持枪抢劫
stick-up• Did executives of the Colorado Rockies pull a stick-up at the city treasury?