dick
noun
a detective.
dicks
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pluralof dick.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Flowers include “desert dandelions, blue dicks, desert or wild parsley, and red maids,” according to the parks department, as well as blooming Joshua trees and bladderpod.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Look for lupines, goldfields, blue dicks and giant coreopsis.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
The coverups, private dicks, badgering lawyers, statements that promise one thing followed by the opposite: These are behaviors that happened in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and beyond.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022
Feminists weren’t literally going to steal their dicks and hide them in trees, as medieval witches were said to do, but that did turn out to be a surprisingly apt metaphor for their work.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019
"No," he said, rather dubiously, after a moment's deep thought; "dey don't nobody get nothin' dat de dicks see first; but we'll get even with dese blokes, annyway."
From The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs
