dead-eye Dick
noun1
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:
- "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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- “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:
- Related terms
- Alibi Ike, Dapper Dan, doubting Thomas, fancy Dan, gloomy Gus, good-time Charlie, lazy Lawrence, nervous Nellie, plain Jane, Silent Sam, skinny Minnie, slick Rick