Stick

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A stick generally refers to a long, slender piece of wood, usually a branch from a tree without the leaves that may be refined. It can also be used as a weapon and early records have shown that they were used for hunting.

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Stick may refer to:

• Chopsticks, an eating utensil
• Rod, cane, or hickory stick, disciplinary implements
• Pointing stick, an indicator
• Swagger stick, a formal attribute
• Club (weapon) or staff (stick), weapons
• Tally stick, a marking medium
• Cane (walking stick), a mobility aid
• Fire stick, a stick for making fire

In objects of similar shape:

• A stick of dynamite
• Joystick, the control column in an aircraft cockpit, or a computer game controller
• Prayer stick
• Polo stick, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc. in sports
• Memory Stick, a device for storing digital information.
• Modem stick (i.e. Huawei E172).
• Stick shift, automobile transmission

The sticks may refer to:

• The boondocks, a remote area, or a city or town that is considered unsophisticated

Stick may also refer to:

• Adhesion
• Stick (unit), an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm), cfr. in yard
• Gold Stick and Silver Stick, certain functions named after a ceremonial attribute
• Stick (comics), a character in Marvel Comics, predominantly Daredevil
• Stick-Eastlake, a type of Victorian architecture
• Stick (film), a movie featuring Burt Reynolds and music by Anne Murray
• Penis (slang) ^[1]

In nicknames:

• Sticks for the Led Zeppelin album Led Zeppelin IV
• Sticks for Stephen Kernahan, former Australian rules football champion with the Carlton Football Club
• Stick for Gene Michael, former baseball infielder and manager
• Candlestick Park, the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers and former home of the San Francisco Giants
• Sticks is Jaina Solo's Nickname while she is in Rogue Squadron from Starwars

In music:

• Didgeridoo, a musical instrument often called a "stick"
• Clapstick, a musical instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo
• Chapman Stick, a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s
• Stick, the wooden or fiberglass part of a bow for a stringed instrument

In the military:

• A cluster of bombs
• A group of (generally) 12 paratroopers

In language:

• to give stick, British English slang expression meaning 'to give denigration or criticism' for something to someone

[edit] See also

• Poohsticks, a game
• Styx (disambiguation)
• Stick insect or "walking stick", an insect
• Stick figure, also known as a stick man
• Stick Cricket, an online game
• The Sticks, Hiberno-English slang for the countryside
• Sticky (disambiguation)
• Centre stick, a cockpit arrangement with the control column located centrally
• Side-stick, a cockpit arrangement with the control column located at the side
• The Sticks, an Australian band

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