sticks

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English edit

sticks

sticks pl (plural only)

(informal, derogatory, with "the") rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region.
We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.
- 2002 February, Don Spears, Playing for Keeps‎^[1], Los Angeles: Milligan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 183:
  "How'd your in-laws feel about you marryin' your wife? Maybe you could pass the paper bag test and the comb test, but your old man had dark skin, kinky hair, and he was a dyed-in-wool bapistst from out in the sticks."
(horse racing) Hurdles or other obstacles to be jumped over.
- 1902, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 40, page 469:
  It was a maiden race over the "sticks," and the trainer's instructions were to slip off and make the running throughout.
- 2009, Anni Bowden, Nancy Lewthwaite, The Activity Year Book, page 124:
  Do they prefer flat or 'over the sticks' (jump races)? Does the group know what the races with jumps are called?
(slang, chiefly by long-time users) crutches

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sticks n (plural sticksuri)

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