Hicks

[hiks]

noun

1. Edward, 1780–1849, U.S. painter.

2. Granville, 1902–82, U.S. writer, educator, and editor.

3. Sir John Richard, 1904–1989, British economist: Nobel Prize 1972.

Example Sentences

His gumshoe, Hicks McTaggart, starts out in Depression-era Milwaukee, investigating the disappearance of the heiress to a dairy fortune.

From Los Angeles Times

In a scenario straight out of Dashiell Hammett’s early stories, a detective agency operative named Hicks McTaggart gets an assignment to chase down the runaway heiress to a major cheese fortune.

From Los Angeles Times

The van driver, Christopher Hicks from St Neots in Cambridgeshire, was convicted of causing death by careless driving, but a drug test, which was positive, was only carried out the day after the crash.

From BBC

Frost but originally read for the part of Corporal Hicks, had gotten that role instead of Michael Biehn, one of Weaver’s main co-stars.

From Salon

It may not have altered the parental dynamic that Hicks and Ripley shared but it may have changed other assumptions we projected on those two characters.

From Salon