English Dictionary

stickman

名詞

アメリカ英語 イギリス英語 古語 俗語

A simple drawing of a man with lines to represent limbs and torso. / A dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick. / (US) A person who makes confectionery by pulling candy onto a stick.

日本語の意味

線や棒を使って簡易的に描かれた人間、すなわち「棒人間」 / （特に米国で）サイコロ遊びにおいて、サイコロを棒で集めるギャンブルの業者を指す場合がある / （米国）棒にキャンディーを刺して作るお菓子を製造する人を指す場合がある

She drew a stickman on the napkin to explain the idea.

彼女はアイデアを説明するためにナプキンに棒人間を描いた。

意味（1）

A simple drawing of a man with lines to represent limbs and torso.

意味（2）

A dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.

Then, when it was his turn to shoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him.

意味（3）

(US) A person who makes confectionery by pulling candy onto a stick.

Stick candy is made by a stick puller or stickman, who pulls the hard candy after it has been boiled; […]

意味（4）

(UK, slang, archaic) A pickpocket's accomplice who takes the stolen goods in case the pickpocket is searched.

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 […]

stickmen （ plural ）