sticky end
Unpleasant fatal conclusion
A sticky end is an unpleasant outcome or fate, especially death: He'll come to a sticky end if he keeps dealing drugs.
The phrase suggests something messy or difficult to escape.
In molecular biology, a sticky end is a single-stranded overhang at the end of a DNA fragment that can bond with complementary sequences—useful for genetic engineering.
- unfortunateDeserving of pity
- deathCessation of life
- overhangSection projecting beyond support
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- double helixTwo intertwined spirals
untimely · conclusion · disaster · misadventure · ligase · catastrophe · ligation · cut and paste · annealing · deoxyribonucleic acid · hybridization · base pairing · recombinant DNA · demise · mortality · plasmid · murder mystery · crime novel
sticky endnatural death
Death from internal causes
good death · happy ending · soft landing · peaceful death · dignified death
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