2.matchstick men/figuresBritish EnglishBrEAV people in pictures who have been drawn with thin lines to represent their arms, legs, and bodies, as if by a child 火柴人〔像小孩所作的人物线条画〕SYN American English stick person
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matchstick men/figures• More like troubled at mill Salford says there's more to its patronsaint than pictures of matchstick men.
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matchstick• The temporarybridge was first of all submerged then, like a matchstick, it was lifted up and sweptaside.• Woolley picked his teeth with a matchstick.• An explosion would have made a mess of them, and matchsticks of that tub.• There being no ink left in the pen, Pooley had pierced the points of his speculation through with defunctmatchsticks.• The heads of these children were no larger than the heads of matchsticks.• As there were not enough metre sticks to go round, l gave out matchsticks to represent the fences.• She had a bun of hair at her nape from which stuck out carvedhairpins, thinner than splitmatchsticks.• Place two matchsticks in this gap. 5.