sticks

See also: Sticks

English

Alternative forms

• stix

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /stɪks/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophone: Styx

Noun

sticks

1. plural of stick

Noun

sticks pl (plural only)

1. (informal, derogatory, with "the") rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region.

   We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.

   • 2002 February, Don Spears, Playing for Keeps‎^[1], Los Angeles: Milligan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 183:

     "How'd your in-laws feel about you marryin' your wife? Maybe you could pass the paper bag test and the comb test, but your old man had dark skin, kinky hair, and he was a dyed-in-wool baptist from out in the sticks."

2. (horse racing) Hurdles or other obstacles to be jumped over.
   • 1902, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 40, page 469:

     It was a maiden race over the "sticks," and the trainer's instructions were to slip off and make the running throughout.

   • 2009, Anni Bowden, Nancy Lewthwaite, The Activity Year Book, page 124:

     Do they prefer flat or 'over the sticks' (jump races)? Does the group know what the races with jumps are called?

3. (slang, chiefly by long-time users) crutches

Synonyms

(rural):

• See: Thesaurus:remote place
• boonies
• boondocks
• hinterland
• middle of nowhere
• the sticks
• BFE

Derived terms

• Sticksville

Verb

sticks

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stick

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sticks.

Noun

sticks n (plural sticksuri)

1. crispy breadsticks

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sticks	sticksul	sticksuri	sticksurile
genitive-dative	sticks	sticksului	sticksuri	sticksurilor
vocative	sticksule		sticksurilor

Swedish

Noun

sticks

1. indefinite genitive singular of stick
2. indefinite genitive plural of stick

Verb

sticks

1. present passive of sticka