joystick
noun
the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
joysticks
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pluralof joystick.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Encord’s Hansen said that there are warehouses planned in Eastern Europe where large teams of operators will sit with joysticks, guiding robots across the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2025
The two joysticks accommodate righties or lefties, but you only use one to fly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
They manoeuvre joysticks on what look like large retro game-controllers, as the arms pull used nuclear fuel rods – still glowing hot and highly radioactive - from the heavy metal containers in which they arrived.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
From the safety of a room hundreds of miles away, the drones’ pilots pushed forward joysticks to accelerate, steer and swivel deck-mounted cameras, keeping their target in sight.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we’ve all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
