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  • noun Plural form of dickie.
  • noun Plural form of dicky.
  • noun plurale tantum, Geordie, pejorative Head lice or nits.

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Examples

  • And like those fake turtlenecks called dickies, some people love them.

    YesButNoButYes: Why I Hate Wicker 2008

  • You know, I mean, I wore dickies and Ben Davis shirts and derby jackets and flipped-up baseball caps and Chuck Taylors and with, you know, a pile of bleach on top of your head.

    Billie Joe Armstrong, From Green Day To Broadway 2010

  • The new workers' wages are federally regulated, but employers offered many perks, such as free hair waving, Friday movies, and company-supplied dickies.

    Today's Pattern Story and Sale - A Dress A Day 2010

  • My mother loved dickies, and my sister and I had them in all colors and styles and wore them until about 1964 when everything changed.

    Today's Pattern Story and Sale - A Dress A Day 2010

  • The new workers' wages are federally regulated, but employers offered many perks, such as free hair waving, Friday movies, and company-supplied dickies.

    May 2010 2010

  • The new workers' wages are federally regulated, but employers offered many perks, such as free hair waving, Friday movies, and company-supplied dickies.

    Today's Pattern Story and Sale - A Dress A Day 2010

  • The new workers' wages are federally regulated, but employers offered many perks, such as free hair waving, Friday movies, and company-supplied dickies.

    April 2010 2010

  • Please, no Ugg boots or turtlenecks (feel free to make your own joke about dickies; am I the only one who really calls them that?).

    Tighty Whities With the Mail pabba 2008

  • My mother loved dickies, and my sister and I had them in all colors and styles and wore them until about 1964 when everything changed.

    Today's Pattern Story and Sale - A Dress A Day 2010

  • Me: tattoos, black dickies... fumbling and trying to figure out what wouldn't sound corny.

    Nether Mind the Bulwarks: Awash With Bikes BikeSnobNYC 2009

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  • Dickieeees!

    May 17, 2018