dick
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dick1
▶noun vulgar slang
- 1 a man's penis.
- 2 Brit. a stupid or contemptible person.
- 3 [with neg.] N. Amer. anything at all: you don't know dick about it!
– origin C16 (in the general sense ‘fellow’): familiar form of the given name Richard.
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dick2
▶noun informal, dated, chiefly N. Amer. a detective.
– origin early 20th cent.: perh. an arbitrary shortening of detective, or from obs. sl. dick ‘look’, from Romany.
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