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big sticks

big sticks is the plural of big stick.

Meaning of big stick

Noun

big stick (plural big sticks)

  1. (attributive, often) Significant power to punish or coerce.
    • Wilson publicly rejected both the "big stick diplomacy" of Teddy Roosevelt and the "dollar diplomacy" of William Howard Taft; […]1997, Randall Hansis, The Latin Americans: Understanding Their Legacy, page 188

Questions about big sticks

What is big sticks the plural of?
Big sticks is the plural of big stick.

Words near big sticks in the dictionary

  1. big spoon
  2. big spoons
  3. Big Spring
  4. Big Springs
  5. big stick
  6. big sticks
  7. Big Stone
  8. Big Stone County
  9. BIG suit
  10. BIG suits
  11. Big Sur

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