stick shift

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   a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal

   Synonymsstandard transmission

   Broadertransmission

Questions about stick shift

What does stick shift mean?

stick shift means "a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal".

What is another word for stick shift?

Close synonyms include standard transmission. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stick shift a common word?

stick shift is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.