dicks

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of dick.

   A couple of guys at the next table were being total dicks to the waiter.

   The studio hired a pair of private dicks to dig into the actor's past.

   Note

   Only the countable meanings take the -s: the vulgar slang for the body part and the insult for obnoxious people, which stays offensive in the plural. The dated American slang for detectives, as in private dicks, is old-fashioned rather than vulgar. The slang for absolutely nothing is uncountable and never appears in this form.

2. 2
   verbslang

   Third-person singular simple present of dick.

   The landlord dicks us around every time the heat breaks, promising a repair that never comes.

   If the label dicks the band around on royalties again, they're walking.

   Note

   Both verb meanings are vulgar slang, one about mistreating people and one sexual, so the form stays out of formal speech and writing. The mistreatment meaning often comes with around or up, and a pronoun object sits between the verb and the particle: the boss dicks us around.

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