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dicksmith

dicksmith noun: a United States Navy hospital corpsman.

Noun

dicksmith (plural dicksmiths)

  1. (slang, vulgar) A United States Navy hospital corpsman.
    • It was a mixture of pure medical alcohol and Navy-issue canned orange juice. Once the fire went out a little, I kind of liked it. We had a few more, the dicksmiths (the divers’ name for corpsmen who are qualified divers) said “Happy New Year,” and I left for home.2000, Steven L. Waterman, “USS Ortolan, ASR-22”, in Just a Sailor: A Navy Diver’s Story of Photography, Salvage, and Combat, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 272
    • I hit the starter, but all I got was the kind of halfhearted cough I give out when the friendly dicksmith is (squeeze-squeeze) testing me for hernia.2001, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, chapter 20, in Detachment Bravo, Atria Books, →ISBN

Examples of dicksmith in a sentence

  • All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait.2006, Donald G. Johnson, American Sailor: More Adventures to Go with the Job, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:
  • No one could mistake Doc for a Dicksmith (slang for corpsman, medic).[…]You’re a dicksmith (medic)?[…]A couple of areas, medicine and chamber operation, really appealed to Doc.2013, K. W. Hearth, A Common Thread, Abbott Press, →ISBN, pages 25, 27, and 30:

Forms of dicksmith

pluraldicksmiths

Origin of dicksmith

From dick + smith, from the shameful tendency of some sailors to acquire venereal diseases.

Questions about dicksmith

What does dicksmith mean?
Dicksmith means a United States Navy hospital corpsman.
How do you use dicksmith in a sentence?
All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait.
What part of speech is dicksmith?
Dicksmith is a noun.
What is the plural of dicksmith?
The plural of dicksmith is dicksmiths.

Words near dicksmith in the dictionary

  1. dickskin
  2. dickslap
  3. dickslapped
  4. dickslapping
  5. dickslaps
  6. dicksmith
  7. dicksmiths
  8. dicksnaries
  9. dicksnary
  10. dicksneeze
  11. dicksneezes

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