Usually means: Overhanging, complementary, single-stranded DNA.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sticky end: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sticky end: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sticky end: Vocabulary.com
  4. sticky end: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. sticky end: Dictionary.com
  6. Sticky end: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. sticky end: Rhymezone
  8. sticky end: FreeDictionary.org
  9. sticky end: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. sticky end: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. sticky end: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sticky end: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sticky end: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sticky end: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sticky end)

noun:  An unpleasant death, demise or conclusion, especially when deserved or brought about by one's own actions.

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