joystick

Etymology

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

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.
   If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. 1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140
2. (slang) A penis.
   She playing with my joystick All in my two seater 2015, “Gamez”, performed by Maejor ft. Keri Hilson

verb

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