(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.

(informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.

(carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint. / (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, with. / (idiomatic) To remain close to. / (idiomatic) To follow or adhere to. / (informal) To follow loyally. / To persist in using or employing.

(humorous) Skewered through the middle and served individually, in many cases warm, as a hot dog. Often parodied as being done to everything at state fairs in Iowa.

present participle of stick

(idiomatic) To persist; to continue (to use, do, etc.) / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, to.

A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks. / (historical, in the plural) Coarse, bruised, or damaged meat sold to the makers of sausages, pies, etc.

(Ireland) A member of the Official IRA.

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