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cinder dick noun a railway detective US, 1925- And, when nosing around the freight yards, he almost got picked up by a cinder dick, he did the most direct and logical thing. — Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, p. 27, 1943
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 260, 1946
- At first, it specialized in providing police–“cinder dicks”–for half a dozen railroads. — J. Anthony Lukas, Big Trouble, p. 78, 1997
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