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Media

* ''Dicks'' (album), a 2004 album by Fila Brazillia *
Dicks (band) Dicks were an American punk rock band from Austin, Texas, formed in 1980 and initially disbanded in 1986. After the first breakup, singer Gary Floyd formed the band Sister Double Happiness, with drummer Lynn Perko, then later fronted a project ...
, a musical group * ''Dick'' (film), a 1999 American comedy film * "Dick" (song), a 2019 song by Starboi3 featuring Doja Cat


Names

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Dick (nickname) Dick is a nickname most often for Richard, which likely originated in the Middle Ages as rhyming slang for "Rick", as did William →‎ Will →‎ Bill and Robert →‎ Rob →‎ Bob. The modern association with "penis" is more recent, arising f ...
, an index of people nicknamed Dick *
Dick (surname) As a surname, Dick is the 1,513th most common name in Great Britain with 6,545 bearers. Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was tak ...
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Dicks (surname) Dicks is a surname of the English West Midlands, Scotland, and Wales. It ranks 6,404 in frequency in the United States, out of 88,799. Some notable individuals with the surname Dicks include: * Alan Dicks (born 1934), retired English footballer ...
* Dick, a diminutive for
Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' an ...
* Dicks (writer) (1823–1891), a pen name of Edmond de la Fontaine of Luxembourg *
Dicks. James (Jacobus) J. Dickson (1738–1822) was a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist. Between 1785 and 1801 he published his ''Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae'', a four-volume work in which he published o ...
, botanical author abbreviation for James Dickson (1738–1822)


Places

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Dicks Butte Dicks Butte is a summit in Mendocino County, California, in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It c ...
, a mountain in California *
Dick's Drive-In Dick's Drive-In, or simply Dick's, is a fast-food restaurant chain located in the Seattle, Washington area. It was founded in 1954 by Dick Spady, H. Warren Ghormley, and Dr. B.O.A. Thomas. It currently operates eight locations in the Puget So ...
, a Seattle, Washington-based fast food chain *
Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (stylized as "DICK'S Sporting Goods") is an American sporting goods retail company, based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The company was established by Richard "Dick" Stack in 1948, and has approximately 854 stores an ...
, a major sporting goods retailer in the United States * Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer stadium in Denver, Colorado


Other uses

* Dick (slang), a dysphemism for the penis as well as a pejorative epithet *
Detective A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...
, in early 20th century or 19th century English * Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran), or DIC(K), a political party


See also

* List of people with surname Dick * Dickies * Dicky (disambiguation) * Dix (disambiguation) * Dicker (disambiguation) * Dyck * '' I Love Dick'', a novel by American artist and author Chris Kraus * King Size Dick (born 1942), German rock music singer * Spotted dick, a British pudding *
Slippery dick The slippery dick (''Halichoeres bivittatus'') is a species of wrasse native to shallow, tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. Description The slippery dick wrasse is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 35 cm. It has ...
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