"The professor seems to have stuck up any number of candidates with the demand that they should `construct one simple sentence out of all the following.'"
<hw>Sticker-up</hw>, <i>n</i>. sc. a bushranger.
1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 197:
"They had only just been liberated from gaol, and were the stickers-up, or highwaymen mentioned."
<hw>Sticker-up/2</hw>, <i>n</i>. a term of early bush cookery, the method, explained in first quotation, being borrowed from the aborigines.
1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 112:
"Which he cooked in the mode called in colonial phrase a sticker up. A straight twig being cut as a spit, the slices were strung upon it, and laid across two forked sticks leaning towards the fire."
1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 55:
"Here I was first initiated into the bush art of `sticker-up' cookery . . . the orthodox material here is of course kangaroo, a piece of which is divided nicely into cutlets two or three inches broad and a third of an inch thick. The next requisite is a straight clean stick, about four feet long, sharpened at both ends. On the narrow part of this, for the space of a foot or more, the cutlets are spitted at intervals, and on the end is placed a piece of delicately rosy fat bacon. The strong end of the stick-spit is now stuck fast and erect in the ground, close by the fire, to leeward; care being taken that it does not burn." ". . . to men that are hungry, stuck-up kangaroo and bacon are very good eating." . . . "our `sticker-up' consisted only of ham."
1862. G. T. Lloyd, `Thirty-three Years in Tasmania and Victoria,' p. 103: