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- noun US A
manual transmission , controlled by agear lever . - noun US A
car with a manual transmission. - noun US, informal, uncountable Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.
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Examples
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I prefer a stickshift over an automatic transmission, and I seem to be in the minority on that preference.
I would like to get a new 12 gauge. Should I get a pump or a semi-auto? 2010
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I prefer a stickshift over an automatic transmission, and I seem to be in the minority on that preference.
I would like to get a new 12 gauge. Should I get a pump or a semi-auto? 2010
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Now I'm not recommending this, but sometimes after you've been driving for a few hours the wheel and stickshift become extensions of your hands, the pedals part of your feet, and the towns and miles (kilometers) start to fly by.
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I thought it felt like a traditional stickshift with a gremlin doing the shifting from underneath the car.
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Now I'm not recommending this, but sometimes after you've been driving for a few hours the wheel and stickshift become extensions of your hands, the pedals part of your feet, and the towns and miles (kilometers) start to fly by.
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He taught my sister how to drive a stickshift after they broke up, so he was a decent guy.
"It didn't occur to me until this morning that I had gone to bed without any worries of what a new 9/11 might bring." Ann Althouse 2008
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The twins' first driving lesson note to self, don't leave your stickshift car in neutral in the driveway...see Andi's post about "making an entrance"
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One advantage of naming a vehicle “Manuel,” particularly if the car is a stickshift, is that, if you apply an embossed or machine printed appellation somewhere around the dashboard, then people may think that the car manufacturer deliberately misspelled the word “manual” when they were simply trying to inform a new driver that the car in question has a manual transmission.
The Shauny Chronicles : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007
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I keep a mala around my stickshift & used to keep a buddha glued to my dash both for roadrage.
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The Rose Bowl has been involved in several landmark moments in my life, most of them when I was a teenager living in La Crescenta: When I was fourteen, I attended the Depeche Mode Concert for the Masses there, and when I was fifteen, Darin taught me how to drive a stickshift in his VW Bug . . . right in the parking lot that was now on my left.
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