Stick

The Officials were known as the "Stickies" because they sold stick-on lilies to commemorate the Easter Rising. This was used to contrast from the nickname for the Provisionals, the pinnies (pejoratively pinheads), who used pinned-on lilies, though the latter nickname disappeared.[1]

Stick (plural Sticks)

1. (Ireland) A member of the Official IRA.

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

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• Stick Enterprises

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From Middle High German stücke, from Old High German stucki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognates include German Stück, Hunsrik Stick, Dutch stuk, Luxembourgish Stéck, Yiddish ⁧שטיק⁩ (shtik), dialectal English steck (“piece”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃd̥iɡ̥/

Stick n (plural Stick, diminutive Stickl or Stickerl)

1. one, item, piece (of something countable; often untranslated in English)
2. head (a single animal)
3. piece (portion of something bigger or of an uncountable mass)
4. something of artistic or historic value; piece of art (of any kind, but uncommon of novels and films)

   Synonym: Stickl

From English stick.

• IPA^(key): /stɪk/

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Stick m (strong, genitive Sticks, plural Sticks)

1. (informal) stick in any English sense that applies to computing

• Joystick m
• USB-Stick m
• RAM-Stick m

From Middle High German stücke, from Old High German stucki.

• IPA^(key): /ʃtik/

Stick n (plural Stick or Sticker, diminutive Stickche or Stickelche)

1. piece

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary