Definition of "sticky" []

• Having the property of adhering or sticking to a surface; adhesive. (adjective)
• Covered with an adhesive agent. (adjective)
• Warm and humid; muggy: a sticky day. (adjective)
• Informal Painful or difficult: a sticky situation. (adjective)
• Economics Tending to remain the same despite changes in the economy. Used of prices or wages. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "PLAYBOY: Portals attempt to create what they call sticky content to keep a user as long as possible."
• "Both of these models result in what I call sticky sales relationship and is extremely hard to disintermediate."
• "Toyota announced Tuesday that production of eight models will be stopped until it could remedy what it called a sticky gas-pedal problem."