stick shift

noun

: a manually operated gearshift for a motor vehicle usually mounted on the floor

Examples of stick shift in a Sentence

Do you know how to drive a stick shift?
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Most new drivers today will never have to master a stick shift and clutch. David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025 The first time Caldwell tried to teach Cordell how to drive a stick shift, she got frustrated with him. Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2025 This hardcore sport sedan, with a boisterous engine and a manual transmission, simply seems out of place in an era when sedans, big gasoline engines and stick shifts are all going extinct at an alarming rate. Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025 Many of us are familiar with the cute English MG Drophead Coupes (roadsters) with their four-cylinder engines and stick shifts. David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stick shift

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of stick shift was in 1959

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“Stick shift.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stick%20shift. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.

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