"fellow, lad, man," 1550s, rhyming nickname for Rick, short for Richard, one of the commonest English names, it has long been a synonym for "fellow," and so most of the slang senses are probably very old, but naturally hard to find in the surviving records. The meaning "penis" is attested from 1891 in Farmer's slang dictionary (possibly British army slang). Meaning "detective" is recorded from 1908, perhaps as a shortened variant of detective.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The university refused to let Dick Gregory speak on campus.
這所大學(xué)不讓迪克·格雷戈里在校園里發(fā)表演說(shuō)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. "Health Matters" is introduced by Dick Oliver on BBC World Service.