STICK

n. 1 stake, twig, branch, baton, wand, staff, rod, cane, pole, pike, walking-stick We put a stick in the ground to mark the place 2 person, man, fellow, chap, Colloq guy, Brit geezer, bloke Desmond isn't such a bad old stick after all 3 the sticks. the country, the provinces, the countryside, the backwoods, the bush, Brit the hinterland or US the hinterlands, Australian the outback, US the boondocks, the boonies He hates the city and now lives somewhere in the sticks 4 wrong end of the stick. misunderstanding, misreading, misconstruction, misinterpretation When it comes to understanding a regulation, Ed always seems to get hold of the wrong end of the stick