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stickfighter

stickfighter noun: one who competes in stickfighting.

Noun

stickfighter (plural stickfighters)

  1. One who competes in stickfighting.
    • Most people had forgotten I had ever been a stickfighter.2005, Kevin Baldeosingh, The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar, →ISBN, page 383
    • Quickly grabbing one of the crutches, he whispered: 'If we are attacked, you just clear out. I can look after myself; I am a stickfighter. Don't worry!'2010, Robert van Gulik, Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story, →ISBN, page 42
    1. (broadly, animation) A stickman or stick figure that performs martial arts in a stickfighting animation.

Forms of stickfighter

pluralstickfighters
alternative formstick-fighter

Origin of stickfighter

From stickfight(ing) + -er.

Words that rhyme with stickfighter

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about stickfighter

What does stickfighter mean?
Stickfighter means one who competes in stickfighting.
What part of speech is stickfighter?
Stickfighter is a noun.
What is the plural of stickfighter?
The plural of stickfighter is stickfighters.

Words near stickfighter in the dictionary

  1. stickers
  2. stickery
  3. stickest
  4. sticketh
  5. stickfast flea
  6. stickfighter
  7. stickfighters
  8. stickfighting
  9. stickfigure
  10. stickfigures
  11. stickfrog

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