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dead-eye Dick en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A marksman who never misses.
   • Unless the hunter is a dead-eye Dick, lighter guns may not kill cleanly. 1962, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Journal - Volumes 71-72:
   • “These people here were Jap marines,” he wrote his parents, “and were highly selected, trained, and dead-eye Dicks with their weapons.” 2013, Joseph H. Alexander, Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific:
   • "What a shot! What a dead-eye Dick!" the guy with the apron would say as he pointed to me and yelled out to the passing crowd. 1996, Robert Gish, Bad Boys and Black Sheep: Fateful Tales from the West, page 36:

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Relateds

slick Rick · doubting Thomas · nervous Nellie · Silent Sam · gloomy Gus · Alibi Ike · skinny Minnie · fancy Dan · good-time Charlie · lazy Lawrence · Dapper Dan · plain Jane

Synonyms

deadeye