stickshift

noun4

1. •
   (US) A gear lever; especially, one that rises from the floor.

   • It is uncomfortable to be a middle passenger in this truck because your legs tend to be in the way of the stickshift.
2. •
   (US) A motor vehicle with a manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.

   • My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.
3. •
   (US, informal) Cars, collectively, with such a transmission.

   • Do you know how to drive stickshift? [=drive stick]
4. •
   (US) A manual transmission controlled by a gear lever.

   • In Europe in the era before modern electric vehicles, most cars had a stickshift.