stickfigure

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