stay put

1. 1.

   stay put (in a certain place)

   “We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati”

   “Stay put in the corner here!”

   “Stick around and you will learn something!”

   Synonymsstaystickstick around

   Broaderstay in place

Questions about stay put

What does stay put mean?

stay put means "stay put (in a certain place)".

What is another word for stay put?

Close synonyms include stay, stick, stick around. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stay put a common word?

stay put is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.