"stix" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, Commercial Telegraphers' Journal, volumes 2-3, page 92:",
          "text": "How many of you folks out in the stix, who supply the very life's blood of the organization, would favor selection of convention cities in the same carefree manner that a millionaire chooses his annual destination to the sunny climes of the southland?",
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          "ref": "1942, Gladys Adelina Lewis, Serge G. Wolsey, \"Call House Madam,\": The Story of the Career of Beverly Davis:",
          "text": "She'd carry a bottle of nail glue with her and the dope that goes over — gold in this case. They're transparent, you put the gold over or any other color. It's a Hollywood prop being copied in the stix, like false eyelashes.",
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          "ref": "1999, Don W. Martin, Betty Woo Martin, Nevada in your future: the complete relocation guide for job-seekers, businesses, retirees and winter \"snowbirds\", page 25:",
          "text": "The Commercial Hotel, incidentally, wasn't in Reno or Las Vegas, but way out in the stix in Elko.",
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        "Alternative spelling of sticks (“rural area”)"
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        "(informal) Alternative spelling of sticks (“rural area”)"
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          "ref": "1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Nutrition and Human Needs: Hearings..., page 3711:",
          "text": "Citrus juice, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, cheese stix — 2 one ounce stix, plums, milk.",
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        "(informal) Alternative spelling of sticks (“batons”)"
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          "ref": "1924, Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, Commercial Telegraphers' Journal, volumes 2-3, page 92:",
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