Noun
(Canada, US, informal, derogatory) A remote, rural area; a place that is removed from civilization such as the boondocks.
Synonyms: backwoods, boonies, boondocks, hinterland, middle of nowhere; see also Thesaurus:remote place
She grew up in the sticks and later moved to the city.
(American football) The set of yardage markers used by a chain crew to indicate the ten yards between the line of scrimmage from the previous first down and the line to gain, which the offense must reach in their series of four downs in order to retain possession of the ball.
Synonyms: the chains, the yardsticks
They gained just enough on that play to move the sticks and continue the drive.
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. Clyde Tombaugh
It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front. Lou Gramm
Right now I would take homeopaths and I'd put them in a big sack with psychics, astrologers and priests. And I'd close the top of the sack with string, and I'd hit them all with sticks. And I really wouldn't worry who got the worst of the belting with the sticks. Dara Ó Briain
I'd like to see you out in the moonlight. I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks. I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers. And I'd like to check you for ticks. Brad Paisley
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. Jerome Lawrence
There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. Robert Wyatt