stickshift
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See also: stick shift
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
stickshift (plural stickshifts)
- (US) A manual transmission, controlled by a gear lever.
- Most cars in Europe have a stickshift.
- (US) A car with a manual transmission.
- My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.
- (US, informal, uncountable) Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.
- Do you know how to drive stickshift?
- (US) A gear lever.
- My stickshift has broken.
Synonyms[edit]
- (manual transmission or a vehicle that has one): manual
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (manual transmission or a vehicle that has one): automatic, automatic transmission, continuously variable transmission, semi-automatic transmission
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “stick shift”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “stickshift”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “stick shift”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.