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stick figures

stick figures is the plural of stick figure.

Meaning of stick figure

Noun

stick figure (plural stick figures)

  1. A line drawing with a circle for the head and straight lines for the torso and limbs.
    • The first thing one notices about the painting is the striking difference in style between the human figure and the animals; the animals are rendered in the naturalistic style of the other figures at Lascaux, but the man is a mere stick figure and is so stylized as to seem some sort of mediation...1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 110
  2. An outline, with a more realistic body shape, commonly used on warning signs, bathroom doors, and in other such symbols.
  3. (derogatory) A skinny person.
    Synonyms:
    skin and bones, thin person

Questions about stick figures

What is stick figures the plural of?
Stick figures is the plural of stick figure.

Words near stick figures in the dictionary

  1. stick fat
  2. stick fight
  3. stick fighter
  4. stick fighting
  5. stick figure
  6. stick figures
  7. stick frog
  8. stick frogs
  9. stick in one's gizzard
  10. stick in one’s ass
  11. stick in someone's craw

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