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dickwhacker

dickwhacker noun: a fool.

Noun

dickwhacker (plural dickwhackers)

  1. (vulgar) A fool.
    • He can’t look after himself anymore. Up until a couple of years back I used to go down on the coach to see him from where I now live but he'd started to forget who I was. Mr Ritter had become a bit of a dickwhacker. The doctors called it senile dementia. He kept asking me to take him bags of...1992, Noel Virtue, “Revival Week”, in Tom Wakefield, editor, The Ten Commandments, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 184
    • That little dickwhacker wanted to be seen, because in addition to the orange topper he was wearing bright blue plastic sandals, a common type of cheap footwear for these ragheads.2011, Robert R. McCammon, The Five, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 324

Examples of dickwhacker in a sentence

  • Mr Ritter had become a bit of a dickwhacker.1992, Noel Virtue, “Revival Week”, in Tom Wakefield, editor, The Ten Commandments, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 184:
  • ‘Aw, ya dickwhackers,’ I blurted out, in unnecessary Brockville fashion, and Alastair doubled over laughing.2019, Shayne Carter, Dead People I Have Known, Victoria University Press, →ISBN:

Forms of dickwhacker

pluraldickwhackers

Origin of dickwhacker

From dick + whacker.

Questions about dickwhacker

What does dickwhacker mean?
Dickwhacker means a fool.
How do you use dickwhacker in a sentence?
Mr Ritter had become a bit of a dickwhacker.
What part of speech is dickwhacker?
Dickwhacker is a noun.
What is the plural of dickwhacker?
The plural of dickwhacker is dickwhackers.

Words near dickwhacker in the dictionary

  1. dickwads
  2. dickweasel
  3. dickweasels
  4. dickweed
  5. dickweeds
  6. dickwhacker
  7. dickwhackers
  8. dickwipe
  9. dickwipes
  10. dickwit
  11. dickwits

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