stick figure

1. 1.

   drawing of a human or animal that represents the head by a circle and the rest of the body by straight lines

   Broaderdrawing

Questions about stick figure

What does stick figure mean?

stick figure means "drawing of a human or animal that represents the head by a circle and the rest of the body by straight lines".

Is stick figure a common word?

stick figure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.