Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dead-eye dick

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English

Syllables: dead--eye dick
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A marksman who never misses.

Example Sentences

"Unless the hunter is a dead-eye Dick, lighter guns may not kill cleanly."
""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."
"“These people here were Jap marines,” he wrote his parents, “and were highly selected, trained, and dead-eye Dicks with their weapons.”"

Inflected Forms

dead-eye Dicks (plural) Deadeye Dick (alternative)

Phrases

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Frequently Paired Words

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Synonyms

deadeye

Questions

What does dead-eye dick mean?: A marksman who never misses.

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