stick
UK/stɪk/
stick noun: a small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

Noun (1)
stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
- Synonyms:
- two by four
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- cane, walking stick
- 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.
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.1997, Joseph Beals, “Building Interior Doors”, in Doors, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 82
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
- A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- I've been working behind the stick for twenty years.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
- A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
- Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]1611, The Bible, King James Version edition, Ezekiel 37:16
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- 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 and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.2001, Raymond Mitchell, Commando Despatch Rider, →ISBN, page 70
- Synonyms:
- train
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't.
- Synonyms:
- stickshift, gearstick
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
- Synonyms:
- stickshift, gearstick
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.1941, Jay D. Blaufox, 33 Lessons in Flying, page 47
- An aircraft’s propeller.
- A joystick.
- The keyboard offers a full range of actions including Fight and you are given the option of using a Kempston stick for the movement combat.1985 December, Richard Price, Fairlight (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 45
- A memory stick.
- For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.2007 May 1, Alex Fethiere, “Business Traveler”, in Tech front: Alex Fethiere takes eleven notable portables for a high-tech test-drive
- A handgun.
- A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye.2007 September 18, “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya”, in Joseph B. Geoghegan (lyrics), The Meanest of Times, performed by Dropkick Murphys
- A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
- […]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]1854, Thomas Ford, The Compositor's Handbook, page 125
- The clarinet.
- Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?1948, Frederic Ramsey, Jr., “Deep Sea Rider”, in Charles Harvey, editor, Jazz Parody: Anthology of Jazz Fiction
- Synonyms:
- licorice stick, liquorice stick
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- He shoots a mean stick of pool.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.1988, William Hallberg, The Rub of the Green, page 219
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- General hitting ability.
- Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.2002 May 19, Mike Lupica, “Just Need A Little Mo”, in New York Daily News
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
- Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me.1967, Maurice Shadbolt, The Presence of Music: Three Novellas, page 54
- A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
- "She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."1967, Cecelia Holland, Rakóssy, page 39
- An assistant planted in the audience.
- The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."2001, Paul Quarrington, The Spirit Cabinet, page 255
- A shill or house player.
- A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.2011, Howard Fast, Helen
- A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
- A fighter pilot.
- Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.2001, John Darrell Sherwood, Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience, page 30
- A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
- I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]2007, Bart Wolffe, Persona Non Grata, →ISBN, page 245
- 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 compel it to move forward.)
- We were tempted with the carrot but subtly threatened with the stick.
- Corporal punishment, beatings
- The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.1999, Eve McDougall, A Wicked Fist, →ISBN, page 69
- Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- Most people can remember their first taste of cider: sandwiched between an illicit fag and a bout of throwing up. It’s always been the teen drink of choice: available in group-sized bottles and with a more acceptably fruity taste than beer. It is also the down-and-out’s favourite tipple because...2006 April 13, Annabelle Thorpe, “Student tipple comes of age”, in The Times
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- He really gave that digging some stick.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red, →ISBN, page 163
- An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
- There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman […]1921, Elmer Davis, History of the New York Times, 1851-1921, page 61
- A quantity of eels, usually 25.
- The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, →ISBN, Volume 1, page 171
- Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
Verb (1)
stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle sticked)
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
- to stick type
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To hit with a stick.
Noun (2)
stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab; an instance of sticking (pricking or piercing).
- […]; but let me tell you, my brave boy, that a stick with a sword hurts worse than a prick with a needle.1902, Luise Mühlbach, The merchant of Berlin, page 69
- An instance of piercing someone with a needle, e.g. to draw blood or start an IV.
- Most phlebotomists (those who do the actual venipuncture) seldom acknowledge a bad stick in front of a donor, especially if the donor is inexperienced and the vein is not a particularly trick one to reach. Rather than admit to blowing an easy stick, the phlebotomist may say or do things to indicate...1987, Joseph A. Kotarba, Andrea Fontana, The Existential Self in Society, page 145
- A person whom one is piercing with a needle to draw blood or start an IV (especially in the context of how difficult or easy this is).
- I was called to start an IV on a “difficult stick.” (Notice the term we so commonly use to describe a human being who is difficult to hook up to an IV.)2009, Orlando Jay Perez, The Patient Experience, page 32
- The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- One who sticks at something; one who persists.
- There had been a reference to the language.
"I often wished that I was a better stick at it," said Tulloch. "I'd picked up a bit in Bombay and of course I threw myself into it when Fraser got me the post. […]"1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
- There had been a reference to the language.
Verb (2)
stick (third-person singular simple present sticks, present participle sticking, simple past and past participle stuck or (archaic) sticked)
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- The tape will not stick if it melts.
- Synonyms:
- cleave, cling, adhere, attach, bond, cohere, conglutinate, glue, hug, stick together
- To jam; to stop moving.
- The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer. I'd get...1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5
- To persist.
- His old nickname stuck.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
- To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
- For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate
That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 10”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
- For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate
- To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
- He that has to do with young scholars, especially in mathematics, may perceive how their minds open by degrees, and how it is exercise alone that opens them. Sometimes they will stick a long time at a part of a demonstration, not for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas; that, to one...a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 6, pages 29–30
- Synonyms:
- puzzle
- To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
- […] this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle […] .1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I...
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- Stick the label on the jar.
- Synonyms:
- agglutinate, conglutinate, glue, gum, paste
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- Stick your bag over there and come with me.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
- To stab.
- In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.circa 1583, John Jewel, in a sermon republished in 1847 in The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, portion 2, page 969
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- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- to stick an apple on a fork
- Synonyms:
- fix, impale, stake, run through, transfix, empierce, pierce, prick, puncture, transpierce
- To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
- my shroud of white, stuck all with yewc. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
- to stick somebody with a hard problem
- To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
- Behind all that languid talk she was feverishly computing, "I wonder how much I can stick him for it. A hundred and fifty? But it's worth that - two hundred. He won't value it unless the price is stiff."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- You ain't lickin' this, you ain't stickin' this1996, Lil' Kim, “Not Tonight”
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
Adjective
Noun (3)
stick (plural sticks)
Noun (4) capitalized: Stick
Stick (plural Sticks)
Proper noun capitalized: Stick
Stick
- The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.
stick meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
stick in Hindi
- long piece of wood
- छड़ी chaṛī, लाठी lāṭhī, डंडी ḍaṇḍī, डंडा ḍaṇḍā, शलाका śalākā
- twig or small branch
- छड़ी chaṛī
- cane or walking stick
- काठी kāṭhī
- hockey stick
- छड़ी chaṛī, डंडी ḍaṇḍī, डंडा ḍaṇḍā
stick in Tamil
- long piece of wood
- தடி taṭi, கம்பு kampu, தண்டு taṇṭu
- cylindrical piece (of chalk, wax etc)
- உருள் uruḷ
- twig or small branch
- குச்சி kucci
- cane or walking stick
- தடி taṭi
stick in Marathi
- long piece of wood
- काठी kāṭhī
- twig or small branch
- काठी kāṭhī
- cane or walking stick
- काठी kāṭhī
stick in Urdu
- long piece of wood
- چَھڑی chaṛī
- twig or small branch
- چَھڑی chaṛī
- to glue; to adhere (transitive)
- چپکانا cipkānā
- to become attached, to adhere (intransitive)
- چپکنا cipaknā
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- stick in Bengali
- লাঠি laṭhi, কাঠি kaṭhi
- stick in Telugu
- కర్ర karra
- stick in Malayalam
- വടി vaṭi
- stick in Kannada
- ಕೋಲು kōlu, ಕಡ್ಡಿ kaḍḍi, ಬಡಿ baḍi
- stick in Punjabi
- ਡੰਡਾ ḍaṇḍā, ਸੋਟੀ soṭī, ਛੜੀ chaṛī, چمڑنا cimmaṛnā
- stick in Gujarati
- ચોંટવું coṇṭvũ
- stick in Odia
- କାଣ୍ଡ kāṇḍa
- stick in Sanskrit
- स्निह्यति snihyati
- stick in Sinhala
- දඬු daⁿḍu, දණ්ඩය daṇḍaya
- stick in Assamese
- লাখুটি lakhuti, লাঠী lathi, বাৰি bari, টাঙোন taṅün
- stick in Nepali
- लट्ठी laṭṭhī, छडी chaḍī, लौरो lauro
- stick in Pashto
- لرګی largay
- stick in Tagalog
- kahoy
- stick in Arabic
- عَصًا ʕaṣan, إِصْبَع ʔiṣbaʕ, عُصِيّ ʕuṣiyy, عِصِيّ ʕiṣiyy
- stick in Malay
- batang, tongkat, kayu, lekat
- stick in Indonesian
- tongkat, batang, ranting, menempel
- stick in Persian
- چسبیدن časpidan
- stick in Thai
- ดุ้น dûn, แขนง kà-nɛ̌ɛng, กิ่ง gìng
- stick in Vietnamese
- gậy, cành, nhánh
- stick in Myanmar
- တုတ် tut
Examples of stick in a sentence
- What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
- She really gave that bully some stick.
- to stick a needle into one's finger
- A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.
- He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks of furniture.1862, W.M. Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip, printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine volume XXV edition, page 242:
Synonyms of stick
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Forms of stick
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sticks |
| plural | Sticks |
| alternative form (obsolete) | sticke |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sticks |
| present participle | sticking |
| past participle | sticked |
| past | sticked |
| past participle | stuck |
| past | stuck |
| past participle (archaic) | sticked |
| past (archaic) | sticked |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | sticker |
| superlative | stickest |
Origin of stick
From Middle English sticke, stik, stikke (“branch, twig; kindling; mast; pale; stick, stylus”), from Old English sticca (“stick; peg; beam, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô (“pole, stick”), from *stikkōną (“to fix, stick”), from *stikaną (“to stick; to stab”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to sting”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch stek (“home, spot; cutting, a leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant”), German Stecken (“stick”), Vilamovian śtakia (“stick”); also Cornish wosa (“after”), Welsh wedi (“past (time); after”), Latin instigo (“to stimulate”), Ancient Greek στῐ́ζω (stĭ́zō, “to tattoo; to mark; to punctuate”), Central Kurdish تێژ (têj), تیژ (tîj, “sharp; hot, spicy”), Northern Kurdish tîj, tûj (“sharp; hot, spicy; severe”), Ossetian цыхт (cyxt, “cheese”), Persian تیز (tēz / tiz, “sharp; pungent; shrill; piercing; penetrating; nimble, swift; smart”), Sanskrit तेज॑ते (téjate, “to be or become sharp; to activate, energize”). Related to stigma.
From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *stikkōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka. Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.
From Middle English stick, stik, steik, from Middle Dutch stic, stec, stuc (“piece”), from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Cognate with German Stück (“piece”), Middle English stucche, sticche (“piece”).
Words formed from stick
- non-stick
- nonstick
- stick note
- stick plaster
- analog stick
- a stick in a bundle cannot be broken
- a stick in a bundle is unbreakable
- backstick
- ball and stick
- ball-and-stick model
- balloon stick
- bangstick
- bean-stick
- beat off with a stick
- beat with the ugly stick
- beer stick
- better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick
- better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
- better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick
- between the sticks
- big stick
- billystick
- Billy Wigglestick
- Biltmore stick
- bin stick
- bite stick
- bloodstick
- boomstick
- bougar-stick
- breadstick
- broomstick
- bug-on-a-stick
- bully stick
- bundle of sticks
- button stick
- cabbage on a stick
- cancer stick
- candlestick
- carrot and stick
- carrot-and-stick
- catstick
- center stick
- chainsticks
- chamberstick
- Chapman stick
- chapstick
- cheese stick
- chewing stick
- chewstick
- chew stick
- Chinese fighting stick
- chopstick
- Christ on a stick
- cinnamon stick
- clapstick
- cleft stick
- cleversticks
- clue stick
- cocktail stick
- composing stick
Phrases with stick
- stick at
- stick by
- stick it
- stick on
- stick to
- stick up
- up stick
- cut stick
- gob stick
- gum stick
- joy stick
- mop stick
170 more phrasesFewer phrases
- old stick
- Red Stick
- ski stick
- stick boy
- stick bug
- stick fat
- stick lac
- stick man
- stick men
- stick out
- tea stick
- ups stick
- USB stick
- yam stick
- bang stick
- boom stick
- coup stick
- crab stick
- data stick
- dead stick
- deep stick
- dope stick
- drum stick
- fish stick
- flat stick
- foot stick
- gear stick
- give stick
- glow stick
- glue stick
- goad stick
- gold stick
- goon stick
- hair stick
- heel stick
- high stick
- joss stick
- love stick
- meat stick
- mesh stick
- mint stick
- musk stick
- on a stick
- pace stick
- pica stick
- pimp stick
- play stick
- pogo stick
- polo stick
- rain stick
- rice stick
- salt stick
- shit stick
- shoe stick
- size stick
- snap stick
- stick boys
- stick bugs
- stick clip
- stick down
- stick frog
- stick time
- stick weld
- stick with
- tear stick
- Thai stick
- ugly stick
- dance stick
- dandy stick
- death stick
- devil stick
- disco stick
- drive stick
- drove stick
- fight stick
- honey stick
- idiot stick
- match stick
- meter stick
- metre stick
- night stick
- noise stick
- piggy stick
- pixie stick
- pugil stick
- punji stick
- satay stick
- shave stick
- sherm stick
- shift stick
- sniff stick
- stick chart
- stick clips
- stick fight
- stick frogs
- stick it to
- stick notes
- stick phone
- stick shift
- stick times
- stick welds
- tally stick
- toddy stick
- Tommy Stick
- track stick
- upped stick
- Welsh stick
- dingle stick
- driven stick
- drives stick
- finger stick
- French stick
- giggle stick
- gutter stick
- hockey stick
- locust stick
- memory stick
- monkey stick
- nigger stick
- orange stick
- pongee stick
- rabbit stick
- rhythm stick
- riddle stick
- selfie stick
- shitty stick
- Silver Stick
- splash stick
- sponge stick
- stick 'em up
- stick around
- stick figure
- stick insect
- stick it out
- stick letter
- stick nudger
- stick of gum
- stick one on
- stick phones
- stick puller
- stick pusher
- stick season
- stick shaker
- stick shifts
- stick welded
- stinky stick
- trench stick
- up the stick
- upping stick
- control stick
- curling stick
- dandy's stick
- digging stick
- dipping stick
- driving stick
- feather stick
- folding stick
- fortune stick
- incense stick
- malacca stick
- measure stick
- message stick
- Sabbath stick
- shaving stick
- shimmer stick
- singles stick
- stick fighter
- stick figures
- stick insects
- stick letters
Words that rhyme with stick
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- flick
- sick
- unpick
- chick
- dick
- rick
- vic
- wick
- crick
- ick
- shtick
- snick
- squick
- stich
- strick
- unstick
- blick
- hick
- inwick
- klick
- mick
- outwick
- pic
- Roman brick
- shlick
- sic
- SLC
- spic
- thicc
- tic
- Vick
- yardstick
- cinematographic
- fic
- flic
- frick
- gick
- hard tick
- hic
- hysteric
- Laconophilic
- megalographic
- miskick
- nic
- rainstick
- restart kick
- schtik
- shift stick
Questions about stick
- What does stick mean?
- Stick means a small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- What is stick in Hindi?
- Stick in Hindi is छड़ी (chaṛī), लाठी (lāṭhī), डंडी (ḍaṇḍī). See Stick meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use stick in a sentence?
- What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
- What part of speech is stick?
- Stick can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce stick?
- Stick is pronounced /stɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of stick?
- The plural of stick is sticks.
Words near stick in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stick (page history and authors); Stick (page history and authors); ಕಡ್ಡಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); چمڑنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); କାଣ୍ଡ (Odia) (page history and authors); දණ්ඩය (Sinhala) (page history and authors); छडी (Nepali) (page history and authors); لرګی (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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