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  • noun Plural form of sticktight.

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Examples

  • Hey guys I hunt in the midwest mostly Nebraska and Kansas some years Michigan, That said I would like to know if anyone has figured out how to remove sticktights from cloths and gear??

    Hey guys I hunt in the midwest mostly Nebraska and Kansas some years Michigan, That said I would like to know if anyone has fig 2009

  • Burdocks, cockleburs and sticktights intentionally attach themselves to the fur of any animal who brushes up against the plant, the idea being that by the time the clinger falls off, the seeds will have traveled quite a distance.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Burdocks, cockleburs and sticktights intentionally attach themselves to the fur of any animal who brushes up against the plant, the idea being that by the time the clinger falls off, the seeds will have traveled quite a distance.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Burdocks, cockleburs and sticktights intentionally attach themselves to the fur of any animal who brushes up against the plant, the idea being that by the time the clinger falls off, the seeds will have traveled quite a distance.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • But the sticktights did lurk there, and they might up the ante in the game at any minute.

    Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982

  • "Spanish needles and sticktights; they won't hurt.

    A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878

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  • a.k.a. "beggar's ticks" and "burr marigold"

    January 1, 2009