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. | |