The word "sticked guns" may seem like a grammatical error but it is actually a correct form of the past tense of the verb "stick" and the noun "gun". The correct spelling for the verb "stick" in the past tense is "stuck" but it is often used in a non-standard way as "sticked". The word "guns" is spelled /ɡʌnz/ in IPA phonetic transcription, with the 'g' pronounced as a voiced velar stop and the 'u' as a lax vowel sound.