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matchstick

 noun
     
Related topics: Daily Life
match‧stick [countable]
1TD a wooden match
2

matchstick men/figures

British EnglishAV people in pictures who have been drawn with thin lines to represent their arms, legs, and bodies, as if by a child [= stick person American English]
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