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sticks
noun- the countryside US, 1905
- He’d gotten so fed up playing corny commercial music in New York that he’d beat it to the sticks with this trio because he could play like he wanted up there. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 292, 1946
- Try to mean what you say. No wooden Hamlets. Not even in the sticks. — Charles Ludlum, Stage Blood, p. 151, 1974
- Ask some young blood from the sticks who goes upstate on some check forgery. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 44, 1975
- He lived off the hicks from out in the sticks / He was a master of the long-shoe game. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 86, 1976
- I mean, we going to set you so far back in the sticks, they going to have to use jackrabbits to bring your mail to you[.] — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 267, 1978
- When you were up west with Mods from all over London and the sticks you couldn’t help but feel theatrical[.] — Irish Jack, History, p. 31, 1979
- You’re living out there in the sticks. You don’t want to wait for anyone before you cut the turkey! — Avalon, 1990
- I mean, it was still way too hot for me to even go near Vegas, so I set up a meeting with the guys way out in the sticks. — Casino, 1995
- goalposts AUSTRALIA, 1876
Examples include football (soccer) and Australian Rules football. - He marked it on his chest, played on and ran for the sticks — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 273, 1998
- No matter the placement, power or trajectory of a shot, when [Gordon] Stewart was between the sticks for Tynefield City, he was unbeatable. — The Observer, 30 November 2003
- skis; ski poles US
- — American Speech, p. 207, October 1963: “The language of skiers”
- furniture US
- It’s a cleaner but he’s got no D.P. so I sent him to the happy man and now I find they couldn’t get together because he’s got no sticks. — San Francisco Examiner, p. II-1, 24 February 1956
- I got this floor-pop who’s looking for a roller but I can’t use the OA for the DP on his old sled–I’d take him to the mouse house but he has no sticks. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 2–1, 31 October 1966
- — American Speech, p. 313, Autumn-Winter 1975: “The jargon of car salesmen”
- good quality marijuana UK
- Low grade, you’re talking bush at one hundred and twenty, sticks and that gummy silver at one hundred and eighty. — Diran Adebayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 26, 2000
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