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big Dick
noun- in craps, a roll of ten US, 1904
Often embellished to “big Dick from Boston”, “big Dick from Battle Creek”, and “big Dick the ladies’ friend”. Gambling slang authority, the late Thomas Clark, theorised that “dick” came from the French dix. Another popular folk etymology is that the original Big Dick was Boston dice cheater Richard Mantell who was shot to death as he switched dice while trying to shoot a ten. The addition of “the ladies’ friend” leaves little doubt as to the most probable etymology–ten inches would indeed be big. - “There it was—Little Joe or Phoebe, Big Dick or Eighter from Decatur, double trey the hard way and dice be nice.” — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 11, 1949
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 121, May 1950
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 250, 1962
- a 14-inch rocket US
- Here from 300 safe yards away we watched naval technicians fire a free-launched 14-inch rocket known to the men developing it as “Big Dick.” That’s to distinguish it from the older, smaller 11.75 inch “Tiny Tim.” — San Francisco News, p. 1, 27 December 1946
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