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drive stick

drive stick verb: to drive a stickshift vehicle.

drive stick: to drive a stickshift vehicle
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Verb

drive stick (third-person singular simple present drives stick, present participle driving stick, simple past drove stick, past participle driven stick)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial) To drive a stickshift vehicle.
    • I learned to drive stick at a young age.
    • He can't borrow my car because he can't drive stick.

Forms of drive stick

third-person singular presentdrives stick
present participledriving stick
pastdrove stick
past participledriven stick

Questions about drive stick

What does drive stick mean?
Drive stick means to drive a stickshift vehicle.
What part of speech is drive stick?
Drive stick is a verb.
What is the past tense of drive stick?
The past tense of drive stick is drove stick.

Words near drive stick in the dictionary

  1. drive someone mad
  2. drive someone nuts
  3. drive someone to drink
  4. drive someone to the wall
  5. drive someone up the wall
  6. drive stick
  7. drive the porcelain bus
  8. drive through
  9. drive thru
  10. drive thrus
  11. drive time

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