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• Dick Fosbury (noun)
  1. born in 1947 united States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing the Fosbury flop in the 1968 Olympics
• Dick Turpin (noun)
  1. 1706-1739 english highwayman
• Dick test (noun)
  1. a skin test to determine your susceptibility to scarlet fever
• Moby-Dick
  1. (1851) a novel by Herman MELVILLE about a man called Captain AHAB who risks his life and the lives of the other people on his ship by hunting a large, powerful white WHALE called Moby-Dick. The book is famous of containing a lot of information about hunting WHALEs and for being very long. Many people consider it to be one of the greatest American novels.
• Tom Dick and Harry (noun)
  1. informal anybody or everybody; random or unknown people
• Turpin, Dick
  1. (1706-39) an English HIGHWAYMAN (= a criminal who stole from people travelling in carriages) . He was HANG ed for his crimes, but there are many popular stories about his adventures.
• Whittington, Dick
  1. (?1385-1423) an English businessman who was Lord Mayor of London. Although he was a real person, there are also many stories about his life. According to old stories, he went to London with his cat when he was a young man because he believed 'the streets were paved with gold' (= he thought it was easy to become rich there.) At first he was very unsuccessful and decided to leave London. But as he was leaving, he thought he heard the words 'Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London' in the sound of the church bells. So he went back, and later became Lord Mayor of London three times.
• clever Dick (noun)
  1. an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable
• house dick (noun)
  1. a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store
• sleepy dick (noun)
  1. common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States
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