DICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dick mean? 

• DICK (noun)
  The noun DICK has 2 senses:

1. someone who is a detective

2. obscene terms for penis

  Familiarity information: DICK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is a detective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dick; gumshoe; hawkshaw

Hypernyms ("dick" is a kind of...):

detective; investigator; police detective; tec (a police officer who investigates crimes)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obscene terms for penis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cock; dick; pecker; prick; putz; shaft; tool

Hypernyms ("dick" is a kind of...):

member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

 Context examples 

Dick had been left ill at Gibraltar, with a recommendation from his former captain to Captain Wentworth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Dick ’Umphries sells coals—’e was always of a genelmanly disposition.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dick's overtures bothered him, so he snarled Dick away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dick was gone but a little while, and during his absence Israel spoke straight on in the cook's ear.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dick, perforce, had to go through a few stiff formalities at first, after which he calmly accepted White Fang as an addition to the premises.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dick alone still held his Bible, and looked around him as he went, with fearful glances; but he found no sympathy, and Silver even joked him on his precautions.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dick, on the porch, growled, and White Fang, on the steps, bristled and growled back.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dick had his Bible out and was praying volubly.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dick's crossed his luck and spoiled his Bible, and that's about all.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Dick, who had dropped behind us and now brought up the rear, was babbling to himself both prayers and curses as his fever kept rising.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)