stickman

stickman (plural stickmen)

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

   Hypernym: stick figure

2. A dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.
   • 1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice (page 275)

     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.

   • 2014, Jeffrey Lang, The Light Fantastic (Star Trek: The Next Generation), New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 68:

     The most reliable stickman on the floor, Jimmy McGuire, was running the table. Data could hear his silky tenor before he could see the player due to the dense ring of spectators around the pit.

3. (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; […]

4. (UK, 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 […]