stickshift.
A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.
Meaning & usage
A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.
In Europe in the era before modern electric vehicles, most cars had a stickshift.
A motor vehicle with a manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.
My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.
Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.
Do you know how to drive stickshift? [=drive stick]
A gear lever; especially, one that rises from the floor.
It is uncomfortable to be a middle passenger in this truck because your legs tend to be in the way of the stickshift.
Where this word comes from
From stick + shift.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.