GET STUCK

v. phr. 1. To be victimized; be cheated. The Smiths sure got stuck when they bought that secondhand car; it broke down just two days after they got it. 2. To become entrapped or embroiled in a physical, emotional, or social obstacle so as to be unable to free oneself. Last winter our car got stuck in the snow and we had to walk home. Poor Jeff is stuck in a terrible job. Tom and Jane are stuck in a bad marriage.