Pool Cue? Pool Stick?

[71vega]

This has probably been covered here before, but, what do you think about calling pool cues "pool sticks"? Are the terms ever synonymous? To me it seems ok to call the cheap ones on the wall at a bar a stick - but at the same time it seems almost blasphemous to use the term "stick" when describing a fine custom cue.

 

[StraightPoolIU]

Yes: pool cue, cue, cue stick
No: pool stick

Just my opinion

 

[Txstang1]

potato potato

 

[Blue Hog ridr]

I gotta keep tellin you'se guys. A Stick is a boomerang that doesn't work.

I absolutely hate it when someone asks me, "Do you want to shoot some Stick".

What the heck is Shooting some stick supposed to mean.

 

[bflgvs]

I gotta keep tellin you'se guys. A Stick is a boomerang that doesn't work.

I absolutely hate it when someone asks me, "Do you want to shoot some Stick".

What the heck is Shooting some stick supposed to mean.

DITTO. Cue, Cue, Cue. "You can put a 'stick' up your a.." So to speak

Gerry S

 

[thommy]

I gotta keep tellin you'se guys. A Stick is a boomerang that doesn't work.

I absolutely hate it when someone asks me, "Do you want to shoot some Stick".

What the heck is Shooting some stick supposed to mean.

Anybody asks me if I "want to shoot some stick"?
The answer is HELL YES!

'Cause he's a trick, with a stick:grin:

 

[poolrod]

You play pool with a pool cue, you use a pool stick for a door stop.:grin:

 

[henho]

I generally refer to mine as my table penis.

 

[skierlawyer]

Yes: pool cue, cue, cue stick
No: pool stick

Just my opinion

I agree......

 

[Patrick Johnson]

"Pool cue", "cue", "cue stick" and "stick" are all commonly used. For some reason "pool stick" isn't. Go figure.

pj
chgo

 

[pwd72s]

sometimes it's my gorgeous and wonderful cue

Sometimes it's a worthless piece of kindling

 

[cuesblues]

Most cue collectors or just players that understand nice cues, refer to them as pool cues.
Some people think it makes them sound hip to call it a stick "I gotta go get my stick man".
It makes me cringe a little, but I hear it all the time.

 

[JustPlay]

Their just tomato steaks, no matter how you label them

 

[Shaky1]

sometimes it's my gorgeous and wonderful cue

Sometimes it's a worthless piece of kindling

Firewood too!

 

[Bob Jewett]

Sometimes "cue" is ambiguous because it might refer to either the stick or the ball. "Stick" is unambiguous.

 

[Woofresh]

i call it "just a stick" when im jealous that i cant buy it...

 

[Ghosst]

Sometimes "cue" is ambiguous because it might refer to either the stick or the ball. "Stick" is unambiguous.

And of course, a que is also often the line of people who want to give you money.

 

[LuckedOut]

When I was a kid we used to say......"let's go shoot some stick over at Starchers".

 

[pwd72s]

Is it "pop"? Maybe "soda"? Or..."soda pop?"

All the same thing. Hey, if you bought it, call it what you like.

 

[Baxter]

I'll call it both a "cue" or a "stick". It's always "pool cue" though, never "pool stick". I will also call my whole case my "sticks". I think that carries over from golf.