A stick is a thin branch which has fallen off a tree.

A stick is a long thin piece of wood which is used for supporting someone's weight or for hitting people or animals.

A stick is a long thin piece of wood which is used for a particular purpose.

Some long thin objects that are used in sports are called sticks .

A stick of something is a long thin piece of it.

If you give someone some stick, you criticize them or tease them roughly.

If you say that someone lives in the sticks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.

If you say that something is a stick to beat someone with, you mean that it is used, or could be used, as a basis for criticism.

If someone gets the wrong end of the stick or gets hold of the wrong end of the stick, they do not understand something correctly and get the wrong idea about it.

If you say that there are more things than you could or can shake a stick at, you are emphasizing in a humorous way that there are a lot of them.