Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 119: Risk Fillmore’s calling the house dick. Wilson Look Who’s Abroad Now 11: The Swedish equivalent of the American ‘prohibition agent’ is joked about just as we used to laugh about our ‘dry dicks’. edn) 125: house dick A hotel detective.Į. Shulman Amboy Dukes 70: I guess you don’t like dicks.ĭan Burley ‘Back Door Stuff’ 20 Nov. Bellem ‘Heads You lose’ in Dan Turner Hollywood Detective Feb. You can be in the detecting business a long time and not know all the men. Chandler ‘Red Wind’ in Red Wind (1946) 16: I didn’t know either of the dicks. Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks n.p.: Dick or ‘D’ or Dee: Detective. ![]() n.p.: ‘You’re not such a bad guy for being a dick’. Yorke ‘Snowbound’ in Gangster Stories Oct. Madam (1981) 98: We’d strut in the hotel lobbies, wink at the house dick we knew, but never go for a masher or give the eye to a gentleman.Ĭ.B. A dick may mean a detective, or a policeman. 255: The context is often the only clue the crook has in determining the meaning of some words. Sharpe Chicago May (1929) 30: The pinch had been made by a store-dick in Carson, Pirie & Scott’s establishment. Lait ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 26: We’re a fine pair o’ dicks. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society 293: He turned Stevey up while Steve was workin’ on th’ ‘pete,’ and th’ ‘dicks’ rushed in and glomed him. a detective thus house dick, the security officer in a hotel, office store-dick a store detective, dry dick, a Prohibition agent, etc. Confidential 100: Sid Hudgens didn’t call so much – he wasn’t a Narco dick now.Ģ. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 72: He’d turn a few tricks and baffle the dicks, / leavin’ not a clue to find. He said, Drive me, bubber, / ’Cause the dicks is after me.ī. Hughes & Bontemps Book of Negro Folklore 348: Taxi, taxi, taxi, / Drive me to Tennessee. I’ve a feeling he might be in with the dicks. McCullers Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1986) 331: He saw the dicks and in a panic he started to run.Ĭusack & James Come in Spinner (1960) 321: Gotta keep me eyes skinned for Ted next door, he’s just been put on and if you ask me he’s a dark horse. 1900s–10s) Dos Passos 42nd Parallel in USA (1966) 290: There was a dick looking into our faces as if he was trying to remember them.Ĭ. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 373: The dick and the dip saunter off up to the station. Lait ‘Canada Kid’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 153: A plain-clothes dick nails me wit’ my fingers in a rube’s overcoat. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society 162: The ‘dicks’ ain’t givin’ him no protection, see? Hutchison Philosophy of Johnny the Gent 79: ‘hem big cheese coppers thinks nobody's hep to them bein’ dicks who they take off the brass buttons an hide their star?’.
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