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stickman (plural stickmen)

A simple drawing of a man with lines to represent limbs and torso.
Hypernym: stick figure
A dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.
(US) A person who makes confectionery by pulling candy onto a stick.
- 1903, United States. Census Office, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900 (issue 270, page 1189)
  Stick candy is made by a stick puller or stickman, who pulls the hard candy after it has been boiled; […]
(Britain, slang, archaic) A pickpocket's accomplice who takes the stolen goods in case the pickpocket is searched.
- 1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology (page 117)
  It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]

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