swinging dick
English
Etymology
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Noun
swinging dick (plural swinging dicks)
- (slang, vulgar) A man.
- 2009, Dick by Avery Dick
- Why didn't you request a country clearance like every other swinging dick?”
- 2009, Decisions by Leonard Osborns
- It's always the girl's fault isn't it? Well as I see it, there was a swinging dick involved in this picture
- The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
- I want every swinging dick out there on the firing line, in vests and with maximum ordnance
- 2009, Dick by Avery Dick
- (slang, vulgar) A man who is sexually very active.
- 2008, Craig Maddox, Robbie, page 248:
- 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.
- 2010, Joe R Lansdale, The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, page 26:
- A boozing, pill-popping, swinging dick until the end of time.
- 2014, Alice Clayton, Rusty Nailed, page 154:
- Simon had obviously been a big swinging dick around here, and I wondered how many of them had taken a turn on that swing...
Usage notes
This is usually used in phrases like every swinging dick or biggest swinging dicks.
References
- Cassell's Dictionary of Slang[1], 2005