stix

stix pl (plural only)

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of sticks (“rural area”)
   • 1924, Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, Commercial Telegraphers' Journal, volumes 2-3, page 92:

     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?

   • 1942, Gladys Adelina Lewis, Serge G. Wolsey, "Call House Madam,": The Story of the Career of Beverly Davis:

     She'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.

   • 1999, Don W. Martin, Betty Woo Martin, Nevada in your future: the complete relocation guide for job-seekers, businesses, retirees and winter "snowbirds", page 25:

     The Commercial Hotel, incidentally, wasn't in Reno or Las Vegas, but way out in the stix in Elko.

2. (informal) Alternative spelling of sticks (“batons”)
   • 1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Nutrition and Human Needs: Hearings..., page 3711:

     Citrus juice, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, cheese stix — 2 one ounce stix, plums, milk.

• sixt