joystick

or joy stick

[ joi-stik ]

/ ˈdʒɔɪˌstɪk /

noun

Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.

Computers. a lever resembling this, used to control movement of a cursor or other graphic element for video games and computer graphics.Compare mouse(def 4), stylus(def 3).

any leverlike switch for controlling, manipulating, guiding, or the like.

Words nearby joystick

joyner-kersee, joyous, joypad, joypop, joyride, joystick, jozi, joão pessoa, jp, jpeg, jpn.

Origin of joystick

First recorded in 1905–10; joy + stick¹

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Examples from the Web for joy-stick

At two thousand feet Dastral pushed back the joy-stick, and flattened out.
Dastral of the Flying Corps|Rowland Walker
A girl sat at the joy-stick looking as if carved out of wood.
The White Morning|Gertrude Atherton
Barcroft, his hands resting lightly on the "joy-stick," was keenly alert to every forthcoming move of his adversary.
Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.|Percy F. Westerman
He leapt lightly into the machine and jiggled the joy-stick.
Tam O' The Scoots|Edgar Wallace

The light-spot cursor and joy-stick method replace the light pen in this case.
On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969|H. W. Fulbright et al.

British Dictionary definitions for joy-stick

joystick

/ (ˈdʒɔɪˌstɪk) /

noun

informal the control stick of an aircraft or of any of various machines

computing a lever by means of which the display on a screen may be controlled used esp for games, flight simulators, etc

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