Definition of stick

"stick" in the noun sense

1. stick

an implement consisting of a length of wood

"he collected dry sticks for a campfire"

"the kid had a candied apple on a stick"

2. stick

a small thin branch of a tree

3. stick, control stick, joystick

a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane

4. stick

a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine

5. pin, peg, stick

informal terms for the leg

"fever left him weak on his sticks"

6. stick

a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball

7. stick

a long thin implement resembling a length of wood

"cinnamon sticks"

"a stick of dynamite"

8. joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff

marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking

9. stick

threat of a penalty

"the policy so far is all stick and no carrot"

"stick" in the verb sense

1. lodge, wedge, stick, deposit

put, fix, force, or implant

"lodge a bullet in the table"

"stick your thumb in the crack"

2. stay, stick, stick around, stay put

stay put (in a certain place we are not moving to Cincinnati"

"We are staying in Detroit

"Stay put in the corner here!"

"Stick around and you will learn something!"

3. adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to

stick to firmly

"Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"

4. stick

be or become fixed

"The door sticks

5. stick

endure

"The label stuck to her for the rest of her life"

6. adhere, stick

be a devoted follower or supporter

"The residents of this village adhered to Catholicism"

"She sticks to her principles"

7. stand by, stick by, stick, adhere

be loyal to

"She stood by her husband in times of trouble"

"The friends stuck together through the war"

8. stick

cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface

"stick some feathers in the turkey before you serve it"

9. stick

fasten with an adhesive material like glue

"stick the poster onto the wall"

10. stick

fasten with or as with pins or nails

"stick the photo onto the corkboard"

11. stick

fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something

"stick the corner of the sheet under the mattress"

12. stick

pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument

"he stuck the cloth with the needle"

13. stick

pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed

"He stuck the needle into his finger"

14. cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere

come or be in close contact with stick or hold together and resist separation

"The dress clings to her body"

"The label stuck to the box"

"The sushi rice grains cohere"

15. stick, sting

saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

"They stuck me with the dinner bill"

"I was stung with a huge tax bill"

16. perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

be a mystery or bewildering to

"This beats me!"

"Got me

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Quotations for stick

Shoemaker, stick to your last. [ Pliny ]

Let the cobbler stick to his last. [ Pliny ]

To lick honey through a cleft stick. [ Proverb ]

I will stick in your skirts for this. [ Proverb ]

A straight stick is crooked in the water. [ Proverb ]

He has got the fiddle, but not the stick. [ Proverb ]

There is no argument like that of a stick. [ Spanish Proverb ]

On some men's bread butter will not stick. [ Proverb ]

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow. [ Proverb ]

I gave you a stick to break my own head with. [ Proverb ]

Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick
Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. [ Herbert ]

It is an easy thing to find a stick to beat a dog. [ Proverb ]

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Ill natures, the more you ask them, the more they stick. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats. [ Proverb ]

A good pinch and a rap with a stick is a clown's compliment. [ Proverb ]

If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet it will leave some mark. [ Proverb ]

Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. [ H. W. Shaw ]

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. [ Pope ]

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. [ Haliburton ]

What avails it me, to draw one foot out of the mire, and stick the other in? [ Proverb ]

Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no him you hurt, but his ancestors. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Good things have to be engraved on the memory; bad ones stick there of themselves. [ Charles Reade ]

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year." Press a stick and it seems a youth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thoughts perhaps, which, like fieldmice of the soul, leap under the feet and stick like adders. [ Richter ]

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Scandals are like dandelion seeds - they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. [ Ouida ]

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. [ Sheridan ]

Gentlemen use books as gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles. [ Lyly ]

Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crow-bars loose the bull-dog's lip; Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields, Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. [ O. W. Holmes ]

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. [ Spurgeon ]

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn-door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. [ Samuel Smiles ]

If all fools had baubles* we should want fuel. (*The fool or jester carried in his hand a wooden sceptre called a bauble. It was a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a puppet or doll. Jesters were still retained in Herbert's day.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the bonny gem in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. [ H. N. Hudson ]

stick in Scrabble®

The word stick is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

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stick in Words With Friends™

The word stick is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

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Words within the letters of stick

2 letter words in stick (2 words)

3 letter words in stick (8 words)

4 letter words in stick (5 words)

5 letter words in stick (Anagrams) (2 words)

stick + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence stick

Word Growth involving stick

Shorter words in stick

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Longer words containing stick

antistick

billystick billysticks

breadstick breadsticks

broomstick broomsticks

candlestick candlesticks

chopstick chopsticks

crabstick crabsticks

dipstick dipsticks

dripstick dripsticks

drumstick drumsticks

fingerstick fingersticks

flagstick flagsticks

floatstick floatsticks

gearstick gearsticks

glowstick glowsticks

gluestick gluesticks

gobstick gobsticks

greenstick greensticks

joystick joysticks

lightstick lightsticks

lipstick lipsticked unlipsticked

lipstick lipsticks

mapstick mapsticks

matchstick matchsticks

meterstick metersticks

mopstick mopsticks

nightstick nightsticks

nonstick nonsticking

nonstick nonsticky

restick resticking

restick resticks

singlestick

slapstick slapsticks

stickball

sticked lipsticked unlipsticked

sticked unsticked

sticker billsticker billstickers

sticker stickers billstickers

sticker stickers unstickers

sticker unsticker unstickered

sticker unsticker unstickers

stickhandle stickhandled

stickhandle stickhandler stickhandlers

stickhandle stickhandles

stickhandling

stickier

stickiest

stickily

stickiness

sticking billsticking billstickings

sticking nonsticking

sticking resticking

sticking unsticking

stickle stickleback sticklebacks

stickle stickled

stickle stickler sticklers

stickle stickles stickless

sticklike

stickling

stickman

stickmen

stickout stickouts

stickpin stickpins

sticks billysticks

sticks breadsticks

sticks broomsticks

sticks candlesticks

sticks chopsticks

sticks crabsticks

sticks dipsticks

sticks dripsticks

sticks drumsticks

sticks fiddlesticks

sticks fingersticks

sticks flagsticks

sticks floatsticks

sticks gearsticks

sticks glowsticks

sticks gluesticks

sticks gobsticks

sticks greensticks

sticks joysticks

sticks lightsticks

sticks lipsticks

sticks mapsticks

sticks matchsticks

sticks metersticks

sticks mopsticks

sticks nightsticks

sticks resticks

sticks slapsticks

sticks stickseed stickseeds

sticks swordsticks

sticks tapersticks

sticks thundersticks

sticks toothsticks

sticks unsticks

sticks walkingsticks

sticks yardsticks

sticktail sticktails

stickum stickums

stickup stickups

stickweed stickweeds

sticky nonsticky

sticky plasticky

sticky stickybeak stickybeaked

sticky stickybeak stickybeaker stickybeakers

sticky stickybeak stickybeaking

sticky stickybeak stickybeaks

sticky unsticky

swordstick swordsticks

taperstick tapersticks

thunderstick thundersticks

toothstick toothsticks

unstick unsticked

unstick unsticker unstickered

unstick unsticker unstickers

unstick unsticking

unstick unsticks

unstick unsticky

walkingstick walkingsticks

yardstick yardsticks