Stickwoman
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A simple drawing of a woman with lines to represent limbs and torso.
"Some had illustrated their cards in crayon, and I found these drawings strangely moving. A stickwoman convalescing in bed. A stickwoman weeping tears in red dashes like tracer rounds. In one card, I found myself joining the hapless stickwoman in a transparent, rocket-shaped house."
- 2 A female dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.
"I step up to the least-crowded crap table, taking my place to the right of a country-and-western-type stickwoman with tightly permed blond hair who looks as if she would be more comfortable dressed in the square-dance outfit of the Frontier than wearing the chinoiserie, or maybe the japonaiserie, of her purple kimono uniform."
- 3 A female player in a game played with a stick (such as hockey or lacrosse).
"Panther stickwomen recorded five shutouts in the regular season and outscored their opponents by a solid 24-12 margin."
Example
More examples"Some had illustrated their cards in crayon, and I found these drawings strangely moving. A stickwoman convalescing in bed. A stickwoman weeping tears in red dashes like tracer rounds. In one card, I found myself joining the hapless stickwoman in a transparent, rocket-shaped house."
Etymology
From stick + -woman.
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