stix
See also: Stix
English
Noun
stix
- Alternative spelling of sticks (“rural area”)
- 1924, Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, Commercial Telegraphers' Journal, volume 2-3, page 92:
- How many of you folks out in the stix, who supply the very life's blood of the organization, would favor selection of convention cities in the same carefree manner that a millionaire chooses his annual destination to the sunny climes of the southland?
- 1942, Gladys Adelina Lewis, Serge G. Wolsey, "Call House Madam,": The Story of the Career of Beverly Davis:
- She'd carry a bottle of nail glue with her and the dope that goes over — gold in this case. They're transparent, you put the gold over or any other color. It's a Hollywood prop being copied in the stix, like false eyelashes.
- 1999, Don W. Martin, Betty Woo Martin, Nevada in your future: the complete relocation guide for job-seekers, businesses, retirees and winter "snowbirds", page 25:
- The Commercial Hotel, incidentally, wasn't in Reno or Las Vegas, but way out in the stix in Elko.
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