stickshift

Plural: stickshifts

Noun

• A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.
• A motor vehicle with a manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.
• Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.
• A gear lever; especially, one that rises from the floor.

Examples

• Do you know how to drive stickshift? [=drive stick]
• In Europe in the era before modern electric vehicles, most cars had a stickshift.
• It is uncomfortable to be a middle passenger in this truck because your legs tend to be in the way of the stickshift.
• My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.

Synonyms

manual#Noun

Related Words

downshift, drive stick, gear change, shift gears, shifter, upshift