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cinder dick

[ sin-der dik ]

noun

, Slang: Older Use.
  1. a railroad police detective:

    I knew that cinder dick was tailing me, so I ducked between two trains and hopped on the next freight car leaving the yard.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of cinder dick1

First recorded in 1920–25; so called from cinders of coal-burning locomotives + dick ( def ) (in the sense “detective”)

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