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swinging dick en · NOUN

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Etymology

From swinging + dick (“penis”). Appeared in US military and prison slang from the 1950s.

Meanings

1. (slang, vulgar) A man, especially one who exhibits bravado or machismo.
   • Why didn't you request a country clearance like every other swinging dick?” 2009, Avery Dick, Dick:
   • If he could make millions of dollars come out of those phones, he became that most revered of all species: a Big Swinging Dick. 1989, Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker:
   • "Simple. They're all scared shitless of Polack and Artie, so they hate their guts. They know Polack is running the joint, and there ain't a swingin' dick can do a motherin' thing about it." 1970, James Blake, “The Widow, Bereft”, in Martha Foley, David Burnett, editors, The Best American Short Stories 1971:
   • It's always the girl's fault isn't it? Well as I see it, there was a swinging dick involved in this picture 2009, Leonard Osborns, Decisions:
   • Nate took over from the watch commander and addressed all the uniformed patrol personnel in the room. "I want every swinging dick out there on the firing line, in vests and with maximum ordnance," he said. 2008, James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown:
2. (slang, vulgar) A man who is sexually very active.
   • Simon had obviously been a big swinging dick around here, and I wondered how many of them had taken a turn on that swing... 2014, Alice Clayton, Rusty Nailed, page 154:
   • I explained to her in my best stage whisper that I had been seriously wounded in the war, and I was now more a Hemmingwayesque embittered celibate than a swinging dick. 2008, Craig Maddox, Robbie, page 248:
   • A boozing, pill-popping, swinging dick until the end of time. 2010, Joe R Lansdale, The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, page 26:
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swinging, dick.
   • Entertained and amused, they giggle at his swinging dick till the guardy remembers his calling and wrestles the mad man from the building 1995, Kwame Dawes, Prophets, Peepal Tree, →ISBN, page 35:

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