(music) The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.

(Ireland) A member of the Official IRA.

An elongated piece of wood or similar material used for various purposes, such as a wand, baton, branch, board, cane, truncheon, joint member, mast, or piece of furniture.

A noun "stick" represents any roughly cylindrical or rectangular unit of a substance, such as a stick of butter, a stick of gum, or a slang term for a cigarette.

A material or object that is attached to a stick or similar structure, often used to hold or carry something.

A tool or control resembling a stick, such as a gear shift lever, control column of an aircraft, joystick, memory stick, handgun, or clarinet.

(sports) A stick is a long, thin implement used in various sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse, as well as a short whip in horse racing, a board in board sports, a pole with a flag in golf, and a cue in billiards, pool, and snooker.

(sports, uncountable) A noun "stick" represents the ability or potential of a golf club, baseball bat, or hockey stick in terms of driving, hitting power, accuracy, and general hitting ability.

A noun "stick" represents encouragement or punishment, resulting in improved behavior, as well as corporal punishment, vigor, and vigorous driving of a car.

(motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.

(fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.

A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

(Britain) Criticism or ridicule.

(carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.

(transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.

(intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.

(intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.

(transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.

(intransitive) To persist.

(intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.

(intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.

(transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.

(transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).

(transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.

(transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.

(botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.

(transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.

(intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

(intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

(informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.