stickwomen

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
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
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