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clever-sticks

clever-sticks is the alternative form of cleversticks.

Meaning of cleversticks

Noun

cleversticks (plural cleversticks)

  1. (slang) A clever clogs or smart aleck.
    • "Oh, would you, cleversticks?" her sister sneered.2012, Compton MacKenzie, Rich Relatives, page 167

Forms of clever-sticks

pluralclever-sticks

Questions about clever-sticks

What is clever-sticks the alternative form of?
Clever-sticks is the alternative form of cleversticks.

Words near clever-sticks in the dictionary

  1. clever clogs
  2. clever dick
  3. clever dicks
  4. clever-clever
  5. clever-cloggery
  6. clever-sticks
  7. cleverality
  8. cleverclogs
  9. cleverer
  10. cleverest
  11. cleverish

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