One sentence I didn't understand: stuck word

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Nohope  #130659  Thu, 25 Aug 05 05:25 PM
Hello all. I heard it in a chatroot:

[person's name] is still stuck with Lookout - talk about a hermetically sealed world and managing to use windows.

We were talking about informatic, so "windows" means Microsoft Windows.

I found stuck in the dictionary, I can see it's an slang... in portuguese the equivalente noun could be "estelionatário".

But it seems don't have this meaning in this case. What could it be?

And about "sealed"? "Seal" seems something like "sign"... but here I think there is another meaning.

Thank you very much. See ya!


  
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davkett  #130665  Thu, 25 Aug 05 06:01 PM

Hi Nohope,

If you type into Google's 'Advanced Search' the exact phrase:  'still stuck with', you will find more than 59,000 examples. 

It generally is a way of saying something that is bothersome and that won't go away.

I'm stuck with paying these bills.

I'm stuck with this out-of-date equipment.

I'm stuck with doctor's that don't really know what they're doing.

I'm stuck with my stupid car that's always stalling on me.

  
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