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   stick

   /stɪk/

   noun

   • 1. a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree. Similar piece of woodtwigsmall branchcanepolebeanpolepoststakeuprightrod
   • ▪ a long, thin piece of wood used for support in walking or as a weapon. Similar walking stickcanestaffmalaccaalpenstockblackthornashplantrattanthumb stickcrookcrutchwaddyclubcudgelbludgeonshillelaghtruncheonbatoncanebirchswitchrodlathidandakierieknobkerrieinformal:cosh
   • ▪ (in hockey, polo, and other games) a long, thin implement, typically made of wood, with a curved head or angled blade that is used to hit or direct the ball or puck.
   • ▪ (in field hockey) the foul play of raising the stick above the shoulder.
   • ▪ a short, thin piece of wood used to impale food: "lolly sticks"
   • ▪ goalposts or cricket stumps. informal
   • ▪ a mast or spar. archaic
   • ▪ a piece of basic furniture: "every stick of furniture just vanished"
   • 2. a long, thin piece of something: "a stick of dynamite"
   • ▪ used to refer to a very thin person or limb: "the girl was a stick"
   • ▪ (of a figure) drawn with short, thin, straight lines: "stick drawings of a man and girl"
   • ▪ a conductor's baton.
   • ▪ a gear or control lever.
   • ▪ a quarter-pound pack of butter or margarine. US
   • ▪ a number of bombs or paratroopers dropped rapidly from an aircraft: "the sticks of bombs rained down"
   • ▪ a small group of soldiers assigned to a particular duty: "a stick of heavily armed guards"
   • 3. a threat of punishment or unwelcome measures (often contrasted with the offer of reward as a means of persuasion): "training that relies more on the carrot than on the stick"
   • 4. severe criticism or treatment: informal British "I took a lot of stick from the press" Similar criticismflakcensurereproachreproofcondemnationcastigationchastisementblameabusepunishmentinformal:a bashinga roastinga caningan earfula bawling-outverbala rollickinga wigginga rocketa rowvulgar slang:a bollockingrare:animadversionOpposite praisecommendation
   • 5. rural areas far from cities or civilization: informal, derogatory "he felt hard done by living out in the sticks"
   • 6. a person of a specified kind: informal, dated "Janet's not such a bad old stick sometimes"
   • 7. a large quantity of unsold stock, especially the proportion of shares which must be taken up by underwriters after an unsuccessful issue.

   Word Origin Old Englishsticca ‘peg, stick, spoon’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch stek ‘cutting from a plant’ and German Stecken ‘staff, stick’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sticklike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   • English (US)

     STICK meaning: 1. a thin piece of wood or other material: 2....

   • Stick: Italian Translation

     STICK translate: attaccare, attaccarsi, appiccicare,...

   • Znaczenie Stick, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     stick definicja: 1. a thin piece of wood or other material:...

   • Stick-On

     STICK-ON definition: 1. used to refer to something that has...

   • Up Sticks

     UP STICKS definition: 1. to take all the things that you own...

   • Stick: Japanese Translation

     STICK translate: くっつく, ～をくっつける, 貼り付ける, （とがったものを）刺す, 突き刺す,...

   • Stick: Catalan Translation

     stick translate: enganxar(-se), clavar, encallar-se,...

   • Stick: Korean Translation

     STICK translate: 붙다, 찌르다, 끼어서 꼼짝 못하다, (물건을) 놓다, 막대기, 지팡이, 하키...

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   If something is sticking out from a surface or object, it extends up or away from it. If something is sticking into a surface or object, it is partly in it.

5. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishMeaning of stick – Learner’s Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary

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   A stick is a long slender piece of wood, especially a branch or a wand. It can also mean a group of bombs, a piece of furniture, or a slang term for marijuana.

7. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › englishstick noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes...

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   noun. /stɪk/ Idioms. from tree. [countable] a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been broken from a tree. We collected dry sticks to start a fire. He said he was beaten with a stick. The boys were throwing sticks and stones at the dog. Her arms and legs were like sticks (= very thin). Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Join us.

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   A stick is either a short length of wood—part of a tree branch—or an implement made of wood, like a hockey stick, a walking stick, or the sticks you use to play a drum.