Noun
joystick (plural joysticks)
- 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.
- 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
- (slang) A penis.
- French: manche, joystick, manche à balai
- German: Steuerknüppel, Joystick
- Italian: barra di comando
- Portuguese: manche
- Russian: джо́йстик
- Spanish: palanca de mando
joystick (joysticks, present participle joysticking; past and past participle joysticked)
- (rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
- 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X
- Therefore, 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 II
- It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.
- 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X
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