单词 | dickless tracy |
释义 | > as lemmasDickless Tracy Dickless Tracy n. chiefly U.S. and Australian (a nickname for) a female police officer or security guard.In quot. 1957 as a humorous name. [Punningly after the name of Dick Tracy, a comic-strip detective created by Chester Gould (1900–85), U.S. cartoonist, in 1931.] ΚΠ 1957 ‘T. Randall’ Twelfth Step i. iv. 96 ‘Shhh!’ Evelyn whispered. ‘Not a word. It's the sinister Mr. Bumstead and I'm Dickless Tracy.’] 1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) 730 Dickless Tracy, a policewoman. 1979 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 27 Sept. 856/3 A sort of Number 96 full of wallopers and Dickless Tracies. 2013 Paula Garces in alt.tv.the-shield (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Feb. Paula Garces..turned up on tonight's ‘Elementary’, once again playing a Dickless Tracy who sleeps with her partners. < as lemmas |
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