dicky
noun
a variant of dickey.
dickies
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pluralof dicky.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Since June, Parsons-Meares has been rushing to fulfill orders for 178 pairs of pants, 120 vests and 125 dickies for “Hamilton” alone.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He turned to Katie and explained: “So many years comes this girl by me to buy dickies and paper collars for the papa. Now for a whole year already, she don’t come.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
"Must cost a bit to keep yer in clean dickies, ole son," he remarked.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
It had gone through the town like wildfire that he had written to someone in Redlintie to send him on another suit of clothes and four dickies.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
