Definition of "the sticks" [the sticks]

• A remote, rural area; a place that is removed from civilization such as the boondocks. (noun)

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• "Edoran used the chamber pot and then, having nothing else to do, he restacked the wood, noting that the sticks on the bottom of the pile were still green."
• "At last Griffith flung the stick, and Dog gave chase, following the sticks end-over-end flight as he bolted across the quadrangle."
• "If dynamite is left in an uncontrolled environment, the nitroglycerine inside will weep from the sticks, leaving behind crystals on the sticks and pooling in its liquid form."