Joystick

Pronunciation

Origin

joy + stick

Full definition of joystick

Noun

1. A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer or other equipment.
• 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.
2. (slang) A penis.

Verb

1. (rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
• 2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sellMarketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.
• 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup XTherefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.
• 2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems IIIt can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.----