DCHP-2

sticks [cf. stick²] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 n. pl. — B.C. and Northwest
the bush; wooded interior country.
See also: Land of (the) Little Sticks stick country
- 1913 Coast Indians . . . found their profits from fur trade with the interior, or "Stick Indian" as he was known, because he came from the land of forest, or "sticks". . . .
- 1938 (1950) "Wolf very wise, judt like man. I think you neber see him in sticks [forest], only open country, sometimes."
- 1954 Back in the sticks is no place for her, that's for sure.
- 1962 Christmas Day the cows have to be fed, like any other day, and chances are you're away out in the sticks somewhere like this.
2 n. — Slang
any place distant from urban areas ; back-country.
- 1936 You're away out in the sticks and they expect you to work for twenty cents a day.
- 1958 The company's decision not to migrate uptown or to the suburbs was a reversal of the out-to-the-sticks movement which has been marked in some U.S. cities by building of huge office buildings in farmers' fields.