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Definition: Stick Shift |
Stick ShiftNoun1. A transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Stick ShiftSynonym: standard transmission (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Charlie, that's the stick shift! (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Gee, I never drove a stick shift before (The Wizard of Speed and Time; writing credit: Mike Jittlov) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drive a stick shift | 162 |
stick shift | 68 |
driving a stick shift | 55 |
learn to drive stick shift | 23 |
drive a stick shift car | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stick shift"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | schaltgetriebe (control gear, gearbox, manual transmission). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sebességváltó (gear lever, gearshift, transmission). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickstay iftshay.(various references) | |
Turkish | manuel vites. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-h-i-i-k-s-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: skittish. | |
-3 letters: schtiks, shticks, sickish, stickit. | |
-4 letters: fistic, kitsch, schist, schtik, shifts, shtick, shtiks, stichs, sticks, stitch, thicks. | |
-5 letters: chits, cists, fiscs, fists, fitch, hicks, hists, kists, kiths, shift, shist, shtik, sicks, sifts, skits, stich, stick, thick, ticks, tikis, titis. | |
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