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stickperson

stickperson noun: a stick figure.

Noun

stickperson (plural stickpersons or stickpeople)

  1. A stick figure.
    • During my tomboyish childhood, I could eat anything I wanted without plumping my stickperson frame one whit. But during high school, my figure took on "chunky" proportions before I realized the old metabolism wasn't what it used to be. Somehow, puberty had changed my internal calorie combustion...1995, Suzann Ledbetter, I Have Everything I Had Twenty Years Ago, Except Now Itʼs All Lower, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 146

Forms of stickperson

pluralstickpersons
pluralstickpeople

Origin of stickperson

Compound of stick + person.

Questions about stickperson

What does stickperson mean?
Stickperson means a stick figure.
What part of speech is stickperson?
Stickperson is a noun.
What is the plural of stickperson?
The plural of stickperson is stickpersons.

Words near stickperson in the dictionary

  1. Stickney
  2. Stickneys
  3. stickout
  4. stickouts
  5. stickpeople
  6. stickperson
  7. stickpersons
  8. stickpin
  9. stickpins
  10. stickproof
  11. stickpusher

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