stickshiftとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From stick +‎ shift.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈstɪkˌʃɪft/

名詞

stickshift (plural stickshifts)

1. (US) A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.

   Synonym: manual (ellipsis)

   Hyponym: four-on-the-floor

   In Europe in the era before modern electric vehicles, most cars had a stickshift.

2. (US) A motor vehicle with a manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.

   Synonym: manual (ellipsis)

   Hyponym: four-on-the-floor

   My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.

3. (US, informal, uncountable) Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.

   Do you know how to drive stickshift? [=drive stick]

4. (US) A gear lever; especially, one that rises from the floor.

   It is uncomfortable to be a middle passenger in this truck because your legs tend to be in the way of the stickshift.

等位語

• (manual transmission or a vehicle that has one): automatic, automatic transmission, continuously variable transmission, semi-automatic transmission

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参考

Further reading

• “stick shift”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “stickshift”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “stick shift”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.