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sticking

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈstɪkɪŋ//

A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of stickpresent participle and gerund of stick

noun

  1. 1

    A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.

    Too often the beginning student finds it more difficult to observe the stickings when reading single beats or duple beat divisions (e.g., quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 time) than if he or she alternated freely from hand to hand.

  2. 2

    historicalCoarse, bruised, or damaged meat sold to the makers of sausages, pies, etc.

    six ounces of clods and stickings boiled

Forms

plural
stickings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).