Dictionary

sticks en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /stɪks/ (UK, US)

Meanings

1. (derogatory, informal, plural, plural-only, with-definite-article) rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region.
   • We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.
   • "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." 2002 February, Don Spears, Playing for Keeps, Los Angeles: Milligan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 183:
2. (form-of, plural) plural of stick
   form of stick
3. (plural, plural-only) Hurdles or other obstacles to be jumped over.
   • Do they prefer flat or 'over the sticks' (jump races)? Does the group know what the races with jumps are called? 2009, Anni Bowden, Nancy Lewthwaite, The Activity Year Book, page 124:
   • It was a maiden race over the "sticks," and the trainer's instructions were to slip off and make the running throughout. 1902, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 40, page 469:
4. (plural, plural-only, qualifier:chiefly by long-time users, slang) crutches

Forms

Deriveds

Sticksville

Synonyms

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

sticks en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /stɪks/ (UK, US)

Meanings

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of stick
   form of stick

Forms