| Stick | |
| 1. n. (Ireland) A member of the Official IRA. | |
| 2. n. An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton. | |
| The beaver's dam was made out of sticks. | |
| 3. n. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size. | |
| I found several good sticks in the brush heap. | |
| What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick. | |
| 4. n. (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches). | |
| I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed. | |
| 5. n. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking. | |
| I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful. | |
| 6. n. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards. | |
| As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks. | |
| 7. n. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint. | |
| 8. n. (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard. | |
| 9. n. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden). | |
| We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture. | |
| 10. n. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance. | |
| Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick. | |
| The recipe calls for half a stick of butter. | |
| Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick! | |
| 11. n. (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette). | |
| Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick. | |
| 12. n. Material or objects attached to a stick or the like. | |
| 13. n. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick. | |
| (US) My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy. | |
| 14. n. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick. | |
| 15. n. (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves | |
| 16. n. A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick. | |
| 17. n. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (th | |
| I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn’t. | |
| 18. n. # (US, colloquial) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions. | |
| # I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't. | |
| 19. n. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to | |
| 20. n. (aviation) Use of the stick to control the aircraft. | |
| 21. n. (computing) A memory stick. | |
| 22. n. (dated, metal typesetting) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type. | |
| 23. n. (jazz, slang) The clarinet. (more often called the liquorice stick) | |
| 24. n. (sports) A stick-like item: | |
| Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules. | |
| 25. n. (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey. | |
| 26. n. (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole. | |
| His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole. | |
| 27. n. (US, slang) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc. | |
| His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club. | |
| 28. n. # The game of pool, or an individual pool game. | |
| # He shoots a mean stick of pool. | |
| 29. n. (sports) Ability; specifically: | |
| 30. n. (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club. | |
| 31. n. (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat. | |
| 32. n. (baseball) General hitting ability. | |
| 33. n. (hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it. | |
| 34. n. (slang) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.) | |
| 35. n. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman. | |
| 36. n. (magic) An assistant planted in the audience. | |
| 37. n. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person. | |
| 38. n. (military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot. | |
| 39. n. (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers. | |
| 40. n. Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior. | |
| 41. n. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to | |
| 42. n. (slang) Corporal punishment; beatings. | |
| 43. n. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity. | |
| He really gave that digging some stick. = he threw himself into the task of digging | |
| She really gave that bully some stick. = she berated him (this sense melts into the previous sense, "punishment") | |
| Give it some stick! | |
| 44. n. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas. | |
| 45. n. A measure. | |
| 46. n. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches. | |
| 47. n. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25. | |
| 48. v. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint. | |
| 49. v. (transitive, printing, slang) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick. | |
| to stick type | |
| 50. n. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface. | |
| 51. n. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick. | |
| 52. n. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. | |
| 53. v. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere. | |
| The tape will not stick if it melts. | |
| 54. v. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving. | |
| The lever sticks if you push it too far up. | |
| 55. v. To tolerate, to endure, to stick with. | |
| 56. v. (intransitive) To persist. | |
| His old nickname stuck. | |
| 57. v. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing. | |
| 58. v. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm. | |
| Just stick to your strategy, and you will win. | |
| 59. v. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases). | |
| 60. v. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding. | |
| 61. v. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation. | |
| 62. v. To attach with glue or as if by gluing. | |
| Stick the label on the jar. | |
| 63. v. To place, set down (quickly or carelessly). | |
| Stick your bag over there and come with me. | |
| 64. v. To press (something with a sharp point) into something else. | |
| The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it. | |
| to stick a needle into one's finger | |
| 65. v. (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab. | |
| 66. v. To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale. | |
| to stick an apple on a fork | |
| 67. v. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing. | |
| 68. v. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly. | |
| Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount. | |
