Definitions

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  • noun A portable rod used for illumination.

Etymologies

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light +‎ stick

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Examples

  • All that's missing are the Chemical Brothers, the Cat in the Hat hats and a pacifier/lightstick stand.

    Somebody Save Us From All the Neon 2010

  • Rummy: “Condi, hold this terrorists head down while I jam this lightstick in his ass.”

    Think Progress » New Report: Rumsfeld ‘Personally Involved’ In Torture Allegations at Gitmo 2006

  • Costas took out a pencil-size lightstick, cracked it to mix the chemicals and then dropped it into a fissure.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Costas took out a pencil-size lightstick, cracked it to mix the chemicals and then dropped it into a fissure.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • A lightstick, left from the Age of Legends, or so it was said.

    The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

  • A stooped old man in a baggy coat was patiently and almost soundlessly trimming a hedge with a hand-guided lightstick.

    Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988

  • "She says you must teach us everything you know, take us out to the stars, bring us the hive queen and give her the lightstick that this new human brought with you, or in the dark of night she'll send all the brothers of this forest to kill all the humans in your sleep and hang you high above the ground so you get no third life at all."

    Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

  • This ultra high-intensity lightstick can be used in wet or dry weather and provides the most visible light in low-light or dark situations.

    unknown title 2011

  • We've heard they might give everyone a flashlight/lightstick.

    The Vancouverite Jackson Murphy 2010

  • We've heard they might give everyone a flashlight/lightstick.

    The Vancouverite 2010

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