sticky

adjective11

1. •
   Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

   • Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?
2. •
   Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.

   • The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable. — 2008
3. •
   Difficult, awkward.

   • This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.
4. •
   Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.

   • a sticky price; sticky wages
5. •
   (informal) Persistent.

   • We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.
6. •
   Appearing on all virtual desktops.
7. •
   (Internet) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
8. •
   (Internet) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.

   • A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.
9. •
   Mawkish, sentimental.

   • Love you and miss you and wish you all the sticky things one wishes at this season for someone one loves. — 1981
10. •
    Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
11. •
    (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.

    • What's something that is brown and sticky? A stick

noun6

1. •
   A sticky note, such as a post-it note.

   • Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.
2. •
   (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
3. •
   (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.

   • We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up. — 2006
4. •
   (Australia, informal) A sweet dessert wine.
5. •
   A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
6. •
   (slang, no longer used) Wax.

verb1

1. •
   (Internet) To fix (a discussion thread) at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

noun1

1. •
   (slang) A member of the Official Irish Republican Army.