stickwomanEtymologyFrom stick + -woman.nounA 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.”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, of her purple kimono uniform.”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.”