stickwoman

Noun

stickwoman (plural stickwomen)

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.1988, John Hildebrand, Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 137
   • The stickwoman was terribly drawn, her arms and legs all different lengths.2016, Michael Hiebert, Sticks and Stones, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 237
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...1992, Edward Allen, Mustang Sally, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 72
   • The boxman hunches over the house chips on the left, while the stickwoman on the right eyes the dice.1996, Olaf Vancura, Smart Casino Gambling: How to Win More and Lose Less, San Diego, Calif.: Index Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 137
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.1981 winter, Max Petersen, “Sports”, in Middlebury College News Letter, volume 55, number 2, page 27
   • In order to reach the women’s lacrosse field, team members must descend a steep 30 foot embankment into a ravine, cross a set of railroad tracks, and then clamber up the opposite side with the aid of small trees and vines. The stickwomen complain that the conditions become especially muddy and...1984 March 23, Sue DePasquale, “Are All College Athletics Created Equal?”, in The Washington College Elm, page 6