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thumbsticks

thumbsticks is the plural of thumbstick.

Meaning of thumbstick

Noun

thumbstick (plural thumbsticks)

  1. A small joystick, generally part of a larger game controller, that can be operated with the thumb.
    • Occasionally, when playing any given PC port, you’ll experience disorienting frame drops when using a mouse to control a camera that clearly was designed to move only as fluidly as console thumbsticks would allow.2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    analog stick

Questions about thumbsticks

What is thumbsticks the plural of?
Thumbsticks is the plural of thumbstick.

Words near thumbsticks in the dictionary

  1. thumbsketch
  2. thumbsketches
  3. thumbstall
  4. thumbstalls
  5. thumbstick
  6. thumbsticks
  7. thumbstroke
  8. thumbstrokes
  9. thumbsucker
  10. thumbsuckers
  11. thumbsucking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbsticks (page history and authors); thumbstick (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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