STICKS

Date "STICKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: STICKS

Conformity

Phrase: cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat; "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations". "The nail that sticks up will get hammered down"; "Stick your neck out and it may get cut off."

Irascibility

Cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari_tre. in a bad temper; sulky; a; angry. resentful, resentive; vindictive.

Crosswords: STICKS

You don't want to sell me death sticks. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

We'd have more luck playing pick-up sticks with our butt-cheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak (Planes, Trains & Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes.)

Then I'd say, 'Tie them sticks in a bundle and try to break that (The Straight Story; writing credit: John Roach; Mary Sweeney)

My dad used to make us walk down to the park and collect the sticks he was going to beat us with (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

He sticks so close he's beginning to grow on me like a fungus (Strangers on a Train; writing credit: Raymond Chandler; Whitfield Cook)

You just might pick up my magic sticks (Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen; performing artist: Santana)

At the age of six I was a-pickin' up sticks ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can shatter my soul. (references; author: unknown)

If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? (references; author: unknown)

Come kick six sticks quick. (references; author: unknown)

Six sticky sucker sticks. (references; author: unknown)

Six thick thistle sticks. (references; author: unknown)

Jolly Hocky Sticks (1974)

Stuck in the Sticks (1937)

Over the Sticks (1929)

H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999)

Voyeur Thai Sticks (1993)

Pick Up Sticks (performing artist: The Dave Brubeck Quartet)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Multipack Chocolate and Ice Cream Sticks (reference)

• The World Market for Knives and Cutting Blades for Machines or Mechanical Appliances, Interchangeable Tools for Hand or Machine Tools, and Tool Plates, Sticks, and Tips: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Compound Scroll Saw Creations: Ready-To-Cut Patterns and Techniques for Clocks, Candle Sticks, Critters, and More! (reference)

• Pipe Cleaners Gone Crazy: A Complete Guide to Bending Fuzzy Sticks (reference)

• Staff Up: Assembling a Team That Sticks and Clicks (reference)

• Blackthorn Lore & the Art of Making Walking Sticks (reference)

• Carving Canes & Walking Sticks With Tom Wolfe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Four Sticks Lacrosse (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

High Tech

• 5 Magenta & 2 Black Spectra Sticks for Tektronix Phaser 850 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Precidio Pick Up Sticks Martini Glasses, Set of 4 (reference)

• Arrow Fastener BSS6-4 4" Superpower Slow Set Glue Sticks (24-Pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(6) color slides show sticks of butter. (2) single sticks of butter unwrapped, (2) unwrapped stick of butter next to a butter knife, (2) a single pat of butter on a butter knife. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

A scientist is instructing a highschool student in the procedure of "southern blotting". Single strands of DNA are transferred onto a nitrocellulose filter, exposed to a radioactive labelled probe, which then sticks, or hybridizes, to a specific DNA sequence. These hybridized sequences will then give off a radioactive signal that can be visualized by exposing the filter to x-ray film, a procedure known as autoradiography. Credit: John Crawford (photographer).

Herring "horse" loaded with smoked fish on sticks From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Herring smoke-house at Eastport, Maine Smoke ventilators on roof; sticks of herring inside From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Measured drawing delineated by Frank R. Leslie, July 1938. (Reproduction Number: HABS, MO,97-SAIGEN,6- Sheet 5 of 13) The Bolduc House, now a museum, is one of a few remaining French Colonial buildings in the upper Mississippi Valley. As described in the HABS written historical data pages, it is constructed of poteaux sur sole, vertical posts set on a sill, with the interstices filled with bouzillage, sticks covered with a mud and straw mixture. In addition to its construction, the large overhanging eaves and steep roof are distinct characteristics of the style. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu maneuvers to avoid three sticks of bombs dropped during a high-level attack by USAAF B-17 bombers, shortly after 8AM, 4 June 1942. Credit: NAVY.

Men brandishing sticks over fallen man and confronting man by stairs with pistol. Credit: Library of Congress.

Talk did it -- hot sticks and stones!. Credit: Library of Congress.

"We rub these sticks together till we strike a spark ... we keep rubbing these sticks together ... we take these sticks ..." / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

An elderly Makah woman carrying faggots, a bundle of sticks, on her back, at Neah Bay, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The dean rested back on his hunkers and watched the sticks catch

The tenant men stood beside the cars for a while, and then squatted on their hams and found sticks with which to mark the dust

Much it concerns a man, forsooth, how a few sticks are slanted over him or under him, and what colors are daubed upon his box.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The third is a conservative group, which sticks to classical brands (20-30 percent). (references)

According to industry respondents, approximately 100,000 pool sticks valued at P10 million ($230,000) were sold in 1999. “Minnesota Fats” is the most sought after brand name on the market. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ghana

Armed with sticks, stones, and knives, the rioters vandalized the local police and fire stations, set free prisoners in the police cells, destroyed police and fire service living quarters, and looted, inflicting damage estimated at thousands of dollars (millions of cedis). (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

Beating with fists, sticks, and belts is the most common form of abuse. (references)

Haiti

Prisoners accused CIMO agents of beating them with sticks, fists, and boots. (references)

Minorities

Yugoslavia

On March 1, a group of skinheads attacked a group of Roma in Belgrade with baseball bats, sticks and rocks. (references)

Georgia

During the attacks, Basilists burned religious literature, broke up religious gatherings, and beat parishioners, in some cases with nail-studded sticks and clubs. (references)

Canada

Provincial authorities said that the children showed signs of heavy corporal punishment; church practices advocated the use of belts and sticks in disciplining children. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, raping, or otherwise abusing persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a foreign ICRC worker during an NDA attack on government forces in Kassala; the September incidents in which police used tear gas, batons, and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators and in some instances, beat or otherwise injured numerous individuals; the June beating in Hilla Kuku of a Catholic seminarian on the neck and wrist with a stick after he refused to remove a wooden cross that he was wearing; the June attack on Juba University in Khartoum using sticks and tear gas; the May raids by security forces on Alnasr Technology College in which they arrested, beat, injured students, and fired bullets in the air to disperse a student protest on education issues; and the February detention and beating of two students for political activity by security forces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "STICKS": as cross as two sticks ♦ chop sticks ♦ it sticks in my gizzard ♦ it sticks in my gullet ♦ out in the sticks ♦ sticks and stone ♦ the sticks. Additional references.

Beginning with "STICKS": sticks-man.

Ending with "STICKS": joss-sticks, walking-sticks.

Arabic 

‏مش مبلوع (it sticks in my gizzard), ‏وقف في حلقي (it sticks in my gizzard), ‏غير مهضوم (it sticks in my gizzard). (various references)

Czech

nemohu to překousnout (it sticks in my gullet), je mi to proti mysli (it sticks in my gullet). (various references)

Danish

dentalvoks i plader, hesteskoform, staenger (dental wax in plates, horseshoe shapes). (various references)

Dutch

tandtechnisch waspreparaat in plaat-, staaf- of hoefijzervorm (dental wax in plates, horseshoe shapes). (various references)

Finnish

puomi (bar, barrier, beam, boom), jaloverso (bud sticks, cion, graft, scion). (various references)

German

reisig (brushwood, twigs, unutterable), klebt (cleaves), haftet (adheres), Dentalwachs in Tafeln, Hufeisenform, oder Staeben (dental wax in plates, horseshoe shapes). (various references)

Greek 

κινέζικα ξύλινα πηρούνια (chop sticks), καπνός σε ράβδους (tobacco in sticks), κορμοί-οδηγοί (boom sticks), κοντοδεμάτι (bundle of rough sticks), εμβολιοφόρος βλαστός (bud sticks), οδηγοί απόστασης (distance stops, spacer bars, spacing sticks, stops), θείο που διαμορφούται εις τύπους ή ράβδους (sulphur moulded into sticks or cakes). (various references)

Hebrew 

אזורים כפריים (the sticks). (various references)

Hungarian

rőzse (dry sticks, faggot, small sticks), aprófa (kindling, kindlings, small wood). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

算木 (divining rods, sticks used for calculations), ヌード写真 (noon bright, nougat, nouveau, nouveau roman, nouvelle, nouvelles vagues, nucleotide, nude photo, null, tow linked fighting sticks), 春雨 (bean-jelly sticks, noodles made from beans, spring rain), 出る釘は打たれる　 (the nail which sticks out gets hammered down), 出る釘は打たれる (the nail which sticks out gets hammered down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヌンチャク (tow linked fighting sticks), しゅんう (bean-jelly sticks, noodles made from beans, spring rain), さんぎ (councillor, divining rods, participation in government, sticks used for calculations), でるくぎはうたれる (the nail which sticks out gets hammered down), はるさめ (bean-jelly sticks, noodles made from beans, spring rain). (various references)

Pig Latin

icksstay.(various references)

Portuguese

semente (corn, grain, granule, kernel, pip), tabaco em barras (tobacco in sticks), ramos para enxertias (bud sticks), ramos de semente (bud sticks), réguas espaçadoras (distance stops, spacer bars, spacing sticks, stops), paus de laranjeira (orangewood sticks), molho (bunch, cluster, dish gravy, faggot, fagot, gavel, gravy, sauce, sheaf, truss, tuft), madeira para enxertia (bud sticks), feixe (bottle, bunch, bundle, cluster, faggot, fagot, gavel, pack, sheaf, truss), enxofre moldado em canudos ou em pães (sulphur moulded into sticks or cakes). (various references)

Romanian

buleandrã (drab, draggle-tail, duster, rag, rags, rubber, scamp, shred, slattern, trollop). (various references)

Scottish

creanas (whetting or hacking of sticks). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poluge, palice, štapići. (various references)

Swedish

ris (rice, rod, twig, twigs, twings). (various references)

Turkish

siniri tepesinde (as cross as two sticks, jittery, pissed off), mideme oturdu (it sticks in my gizzard), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), boğazımda kaldı (it sticks in my gizzard). (various references)

Ukrainian

примітивна п'єска (chop sticks). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "STICKS": stickseed, stickseeds. (additional references)

Words ending with "STICKS": breadsticks, broomsticks, candlesticks, chopsticks, crabsticks, dipsticks, drumsticks, fiddlesticks, flagsticks, joysticks, lipsticks, lobsticks, lopsticks, mahlsticks, matchsticks, maulsticks, metersticks, nightsticks, pigsticks, singlesticks, slapsticks, tapersticks, unsticks, walkingsticks, yardsticks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"STICKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astwick, ostyaks, sickos, sicks, stic, sticke, stickh, stik, stirks, stix. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cists, kists, sicks, skits, stick, ticks.

-2 letters: cist, kiss, kist, kits, sick, sics, sits, skis, skit, tick, tics, tsks.

-3 letters: cis, ick, its, kit, sic, sis, sit, ski, tic, tis, tsk.

-4 letters: is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: schtiks, shticks, sickest, stricks.

+2 letters: ekistics, kitsches, schticks, sickouts, skeptics, slickest, stickers, stickles, stickums, stickups, stockish, stockist, unsticks.

+3 letters: backlists, bitstocks, diestocks, dipsticks, joysticks, lickspits, linstocks, lipsticks, lobsticks, lopsticks, misstruck, outslicks, pigsticks, quicksets, sickliest, slapstick, stickfuls, stickiest, sticklers, stickouts, stickpins, stickseed, stockfish, stockiest, stockings, stockists, strickles, tackiness, thickness, thicksets, tickseeds, tipstocks.

+4 letters: backstairs, blacklists, checklists, chopsticks, crabsticks, drumsticks, flagsticks, kickstands, kickstarts, livestocks, locksmiths, mahlsticks, maulsticks, quicksteps, sidetracks, skepticism, sketchiest, slapsticks, stickballs, stickiness, stickseeds, stickweeds, stickworks, stockiness, stockinets, stockpiles, ticketless, tracksides, tracksuits, trickiness, tricksiest, tricksters, whipstocks, wristlocks, yardsticks.