chopsticks (?t??pst?ks) pl n1. (Cookery) a pair of thin sticks, of ivory, wood, etc, used as eating utensils by the Chinese, Japanese, and other people of East Asia[C17: from pidgin English, from chop quick, of Chinese dialect origin + stick1]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014chopsticks – In Chinese, the word for chopsticks originally meant “quick sticks” or “nimble ones.”See also related terms for nimble.Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.