# dick

Pronunciation: say "DIK" /dɪk/

## Noun

1. The penis. *(slang)*
   - Simple: The penis, the sex organ of a male.
   - _Stop letting your dick make your decisions and think about what she actually wants._
   - _He got hit in the dick with a baseball and dropped to the ground._
2. A person, traditionally especially a man, who behaves in a highly obnoxious or contemptible way. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A very rude or mean person, especially a man.
   - _He was being a real dick about the parking spot, so I just let him have it._
   - _Only a dick would take credit for someone else's work._
4. Nothing at all. *(slang, Canada, US)*
   - Simple: Nothing, not even a little bit.
   - _That fancy warranty is worth dick once the store goes out of business._
   - _I spent my whole day off doing dick, and it was great._
6. Sexual intercourse with a man. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Sex with a man.
   - _She was getting plenty of dick from him but not much respect._
   - _Once she moved to the city, she found that dick was easy to get and love was not._

## Verb

3. To mistreat someone or take unfair advantage of them, often followed by around or up. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To treat someone badly or use them unfairly.
   - _Stop dicking me around and tell me whether I got the job._
   - _Car dealers will dick you on the trade-in if you don't know what your car is worth._
5. Of a man, to penetrate someone sexually. *(slang)*
   - Simple: For a man, to have sex with someone.
   - _Rumor had it the new bartender had dicked half the waitresses in town._
   - _Some guys dick a woman once and never call her again._

## Noun

7. A detective. *(dated, US)*
   - Simple: A detective, someone whose job is to find out the truth about crimes.
   - _A railroad dick caught two drifters sleeping in a boxcar outside Omaha._
   - _A dick from the precinct flashed his badge and started asking about the robbery._
8. Any male person, whether a man or a boy. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A man or a boy.
9. A declaration. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A statement that someone makes openly or formally.

## Other meanings

- (numeral) Ten, in the numbers used for counting sheep in Cumbria.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–6, 8** — Richard has the pet form Dick, and the word ultimately goes back to that name. Dick came to mean any ordinary man, an "everyman," which led to the other senses.
**Meaning 7** — A shortened and altered form of detective.
**Meaning 9** — A shortened and altered form of declaration, built from its first sounds, dec(laration).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dick (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).