Meanings
stix1
- alternativeinformalpluralplural onlyAlternative spelling of sticks (“rural area”).
The Commercial Hotel, incidentally, wasn't in Reno or Las Vegas, but way out in the stix in Elko.
1999, Don W. Martin, Betty Woo Martin, Nevada in your future: the complete relocation guide for job-seekers, businesses, retirees and winter "snowbirds", page 252 more examples
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?
1924, Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, Commercial Telegraphers' Journal, volumes 2-3, page 92She'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.
1942, Gladys Adelina Lewis, Serge G. Wolsey, "Call House Madam,": The Story of the Career of Beverly Davis - informalpluralplural onlyPlural of stick (“baton”).
Citrus juice, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, cheese stix — 2 one ounce stix, plums, milk.
1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Nutrition and Human Needs: Hearings..., page 3711
Stix2
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Styx.
Origin
From sticks (plural of stick) with -x replacing the /ks/ sound.
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