<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off.</li><li>a relatively long and slender piece of wood.</li><li>a long piece of wood for use as fuel, in carpentry, etc.</li><li>a rod or wand.</li><li>a baton.</li><li>Chiefly British. a walking stick or cane.</li><li>a club or cudgel.</li><li>something that serves to goad or coerce: Compare carrot (def 3).</li><li>The threat of unemployment was the stick that kept the workers toiling overtime.</li><li>a long, slender piece or part of anything: a stick of candy; sticks of celery.</li><li>any of four equal parts in a pound of butter or margarine.</li><li>Sports. an implement used to drive or propel a ball or puck, as a crosse or a hockey stick.</li><li>Aeronautics. a lever, usually with a handle, by which the longitudinal and lateral motions of an airplane are controlled.</li><li>Nautical. a mast or spar.</li><li>Printing. composing stick.</li><li>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.</li><li>Military. a group of bombs so arranged as to be released in a row across a target.</li><li>the bomb load.</li><li>Informal. stick shift.</li><li>Slang. a marijuana cigarette.</li><li>Informal. an unenthusiastic or uninteresting person.</li><li>Informal. a portion of liquor, as brandy, added to a nonalcoholic drink.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to furnish (a plant, vine, etc.) with a stick or sticks in order to prop or support.</li><li>Printing. to set (type) in a composing stick.</li></ul>