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stickfighter en · NOUN

Etymology

From stickfight(ing) + -er.

Meanings

1. One who competes in stickfighting.
   • In the evening I practise my forms with Lapy, who'd be a good stickfighter if he could be bothered. 2010, A Life in Full and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 63:
   • Quickly grabbing one of the crutches, he whispered: 'If we are attacked, you just clear out. I can look after myself; I am a stickfighter. Don't worry!' 2010, Robert van Gulik, Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story, →ISBN, page 42:
   • Most people had forgotten I had ever been a stickfighter. 2005, Kevin Baldeosingh, The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar, →ISBN, page 383:
2. (broadly, qualifier:animation) One who competes in stickfighting. ▸ A stickman or stick figure that performs martial arts in a stickfighting animation.

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