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■ noun vulgar slang
1》 a man's penis.
2》 Brit. a stupid or contemptible person.
3》 [with negative ] N. Amer. anything at all: you don't know ~ about it!
■ verb (usu. ~ around/about ) informal, chiefly N. Amer. meddle or fool around.
Origin
C16 (in the general sense 'fellow'): familiar form of the given name Richard .
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■ noun informal, dated, chiefly N. Amer. a detective.
Origin
early 20th cent.: perh. an arbitrary shortening of detective , or from obs. sl. ~ 'look', from Romany.