sticky

adj

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

   “Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?”

   “Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits.”

2. Difficult, awkward.

   “This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.”

   “GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives.”

3. Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.

   “Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull.”

4. 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.”

5. Mawkish, sentimental.

   “Love you and miss you and wish you all the sticky things one wishes at this season for someone one loves.”

6. Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.

   “a sticky price; sticky wages”

7. (informal)Persistent.

   “We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.”

8. Appearing on all virtual desktops.
9. (Internet)Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
10. (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.”

11. (informal)Resembling or characteristic of a stick.

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

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A sticky note, such as a post-it note.

   “Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.”

2. (Internet, countable, uncountable)A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
3. (countable, uncountable)A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
4. (Australia, colloquial, countable, uncountable)A sweet dessert wine.
5. (countable, slang, uncountable)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.”

   “Still smoking sticky, it ain't no other option / Not for made niggas, and I'm never stopping”

   “As drunk as I was, all I could think about was getting some sticky down my lungs.”

6. (obsolete, slang, uncountable)Wax.
7. (slang)A member of the Official Irish Republican Army.

verb

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