Meaning

1 senses

  1. (rare)To maneuver by means of a joystick (noun sense 1).

Examples

3 sentences

  1. You need a joystick.

    ruТебе нужен джойстик. — paul_lingvo

    deDu brauchst einen Spielhebel. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. I have a big joystick.

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  3. It's no use trying to find people to play Street Fighter with when you can't explain double quarter-circle joystick motions.

    ruБесполезно пытаться найти людей для игры в "Street Fighter", когда Вы не можете объяснить двойные круговые движения джойстиком. — maks

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Origin

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an air

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

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Forms

joysticks, joysticking, joysticked, joysticked
Base formjoystick · to joystick
3rd person singularjoysticks
Present participlejoysticking
Past simplejoysticked
Past participlejoysticked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyjoystick
he, she, itjoysticks

Past simpleLesson

all personsjoysticked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave joysticked
he, she, ithas joysticked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill joystick

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
joyfullyjoyousjoyridejubilantjubilationjubileejudgeB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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