dead-eye Dick

plural dead-eye Dicks · alternative Deadeye Dick

1. A marksman who never misses.

   Unless the hunter is a dead-eye Dick, lighter guns may not kill cleanly.

   1962, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Journal - Volumes 71-72

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   "What a shot! What a dead-eye Dick!" the guy with the apron would say as he pointed to me and yelled out to the passing crowd.

   1996, Robert Gish, Bad Boys and Black Sheep: Fateful Tales from the West, page 36

   “These people here were Jap marines,” he wrote his parents, “and were highly selected, trained, and dead-eye Dicks with their weapons.”

   2013, Joseph H. Alexander, Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific

   Synonyms: deadeye