Meaning

4 senses
  1. (US)A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.

    In Europe in the era before modern electric vehicles, most cars had a stickshift.

  2. (US)A motor vehicle with a manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.

    My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.

  3. (US, informal, uncountable)Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.

    Do you know how to drive stickshift? [=drive stick]

  4. (US)A gear lever; especially, one that rises from the floor.

    It is uncomfortable to be a middle passenger in this truck because your legs tend to be in the way of the stickshift.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Have you ever driven stickshift?

    Ти колись водив машину з ручною коробкою передач? — deniko

Origin

From stick + shift.

From stick + shift.

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Forms

plural: stickshifts
Singularstickshift

uncountable

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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