Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) a croupier [the rake or stick with which they collect and distribute chips].

1911		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 62: Up the street meandering slowly came the old stick man once famous for his big diamonds but now merely an outside man for Cahtah’s crap game.
1931		D. Runyon ‘Blood Pressure’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 78: Big Nig, the stick man in the game.
1947		N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 65: The stickman pointed his stick at Banty; but Banty kept his pay in his pocket.
1952		Lait & Mortimer USA Confidential 28: One of the tie-ups between dope and gambling is through the stickmen in the casinos.
1957		C. Himes Imabelle 22: The stick man stood on one side of the table, handling the dice and bets.
1965		C. Himes Rage in Harlem (1969) 23: [as 1957].
1972		(con. 1950s) D. Goines Whoreson 105: The stick man, keeping the game moving, yelled, ‘Next shooter!’.
1980		Asbury Park Press (NJ) 21 Sept. H14/3: After the dice are turned by the stickman [etc].
1992		Reno Gaz.-Jrnl (NV) 16 Apr. 59/1: When the stickman calleed ‘six’, the man began shouting that he wanted to get paid.
2002		‘The Lang. of Craps’ CasinoTips.org 🌐 A dealer (stickman) with a rattan rake in hand moving the game pace along at high speeds.
2012		J. Robinson Gospel of the Game 25: The Italian stickman’s voice that yelled, ‘Seven, unlucky seven. Sorry, nigga, you lose’.
2018		(con. 1963) L. Berney November Road 222: Stickmen, bartenders, cocktail waitresses, bellhops.

2. (US) in a dice game, one who draws together the dice using a curved stick, and not his hand before passing them to the thrower; the aim being to affirm the honesty of the game.

1929

Illinois Association for Criminal Justice et al. Illinois Crime Survey 1012: [f.n.3 A ‘stickman’ draws in the dice with a curved stick instead of his hand, in order to have the dice in full view of all players before they are handed to the thrower.

3. a good lover, a potent, experienced man [stick n. (1a)].

1952		(con. 1948) G. Mandel Flee the Angry Strangers 89: He’s a great stickman. I was with him last night.
1968		G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 163: A terrible stick man, that tank — Woppit Upper.
1976		R. Price Blood Brothers 36: Italians and Jews are the only good stickmen around.
1999		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 98 Oct. 26: stickman n. A fanny-hopper (qv); a fanny rat.
2005		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz Apr. 47: cuntsman n. A cocksman, stickman. A Don Juan type, highly skilled in the pursuit of poontang.

4. (US black) a police officer.

1968

‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2.