Stick.
A member of the Official IRA.
Meaning & usage
A member of the Official IRA.
Where this word comes from
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.
The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.
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