a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.

a relatively long and slender piece of wood.

a long piece of wood for use as fuel, in carpentry, etc.

a rod or wand.

a baton.

Chiefly British . a walking stick or cane.

a club or cudgel.

something that serves to goad or coerce

The threat of unemployment was the stick that kept the workers toiling overtime. Compare carrot def. 3

a long, slender piece or part of anything

a stick of candy; sticks of celery.

any of four equal parts in a pound of butter or margarine.

Sports . an implement used to drive or propel a ball or puck, as a crosse or a hockey stick.

Aeronautics . a lever, usually with a handle, by which the longitudinal and lateral motions of an airplane are controlled.

Nautical . a mast or spar.

Printing . composing stick.

the sticks, Informal . any region distant from cities or towns, as rural districts; the country

Having lived in a large city all his life, he found it hard to adjust to the sticks.

Military .

a group of bombs so arranged as to be released in a row across a target.

the bomb load.

Informal . stick shift.

Slang . a marijuana cigarette.

Informal . an unenthusiastic or uninteresting person.

Informal . a portion of liquor, as brandy, added to a nonalcoholic drink.

to furnish (a plant, vine, etc.) with a stick or sticks in order to prop or support.

Printing . to set (type) in a composing stick. ?

short or dirty end of the stick, Slang . the least desirable assignment, decision

or part of an arrangement.

verb

loosen , unfasten , unfix , unstick , displace , remove , disobey , forget , refuse

noun

bar , bat , baton , billet , birch , bludgeon , board , branch , cane , club , cudgel , drumstick , ferrule , ingot , mast , rod , rule , ruler , shoot , slab , slat , staff , stake , stalk , stave , stem , strip , switch , timber , twig , wand , wedge , walking stick , bloom , shaft , adherence , agglutination , batlet , boomerang , conglutination , fagot , ferule , gad , gambrel , garrot , glutinosity , goad , maul-stick , mucilage , pl. chatwood , resin , skewer , sprag , stab , stickiness , tenacity , thrust , viscosity , walking-stick , woomerah

verb

attach , be bogged down , become embedded , become immobilized , bind , bond , braze , catch , cement , clasp , cleave , cling , cling like ivy , clog , cohere , fasten , fix , freeze to , fuse , glue , hold , hold fast , hold on , hug , jam , join , linger , lodge , paste , persist , remain , snag , solder , stay , stay put , stick like barnacle , stick together , unite , weld , dig , drive , gore , impale , insert , jab , penetrate , pierce , pin , plunge , prod , puncture , ram , run , sink , spear , stab , thrust , transfix , deposit , drop , establish , install , place , plant , plonk , plunk , put , set , settle , store , stuff , abide , bear , bear up under , brook , get on with , go , grin and bear it , last , put up with , see through , stand , stomach * , suffer , support , take , take it , tolerate , weather , adhere , lay , confound , foist , inflict , saddle , bilk , cozen , defraud , gull , mulct , rook , swindle , victimize , affix , agglutinate , cheat , conglutinate , disconcert , glutinate , hesitate , infix , jut , pose , project , protrude. (slang) impose upon , push , puzzle , scruple , stall , stick out

phrasal verb

abide , bide , linger , stay , tarry , wait , bag , balloon , beetle , belly , jut , overhang , pouch , project , protrude , protuberate , stand out , hold up