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
It celebrates that glorious moment when you get to the end of school and realise that the people you always thought of as dicks, jocks, geeks, or whatever, are actually all right.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2019
"Why we leaves 'em alone an' goes to de nex' farm an' calls up K. C. an' tips off de dicks, see?"
From The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs
