English

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Etymology

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Compound of stick +‎ person.

Noun

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stickperson (plural stickpersons or stickpeople)

  1. A stick figure.
    • 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:
      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 engine into a long-term fat-storage unit.