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stick out

verb

  1. to extend, make vulnerable
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To protrude.

    “He stuck out his tongue at me.”

  2. To protrude; to extend beyond.

    “His tongue was sticking out.”

    “I can fit the pipe in my car, but one end will stick out from the back.”

  3. To be prominent, noticeable, or obtrusive.

    “The one red wall really sticks out among all the creamy ones.”

    “I really wasn't caring, but I felt my eyes staring / At a guy who stuck out in the crowd / He had the kind of body that would shame Adonis / And a face that would make any man proud”

  4. To persist until the end; stick it out.