What is the meaning of HICK. Phrases containing HICK
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A man (perhaps a hick)
a mark on the neck or face caused by a lover biting or sucking the skin, a love bite
Hickory dickory dock is London Cockney rhyming slang for clock.
Noun. A love bite. Also hickie. [Orig. U.S.]
Hicksville is American slang for a backward provincial place.
five pound note (£5), UK, notably in Manchester (ack Michael Hicks); also a USA one dollar bill; also used as a slang term for a money note in Australia although Cassells is vague about the value (if you know please contact us). The word flag has been used since the 1500s as a slang expression for various types of money, and more recently for certain notes. Originally (16th-19thC) the slang word flag was used for an English fourpenny groat coin, derived possibly from Middle Low German word 'Vleger' meaning a coin worth 'more than a Bremer groat' (Cassells). Derivation in the USA would likely also have been influenced by the slang expression 'Jewish Flag' or 'Jews Flag' for a $1 bill, from early 20th century, being an envious derogatory reference to perceived and stereotypical Jewish success in business and finance.
Three-foot hickory stick used by freight trainmen to tighten hand brakes. Sometimes called sap or staff of ignorance
Graeme Hick is London Cockney rhyming slang for the penis (dick, prick).
Decribes situations that are 'lame', or against the normal flow of things. Stupid, hick-ish, poorer, not-cool Basically 'it's not good to be this' is probably the best single encompassing definition.
A group of vigilantes who operated in Missouri in the first half of the 19th Century. To "enforce" their "rules," they were known to whip offenders with hickory switches, which was known in the Ozarks at the time, as "slicking." Also refers to a cowboy coat.
A poker hand consisting of a pair of aces and a pair of eights. Traditionally, Wild Bill Hickok was holding this hand when he was shot dead by Jack McCall. Some sources dispute the hand, saying that it really contained two jacks, not aces and two eights.
Hickey is American slang for a love bite.
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The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
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A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.
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See Hiccough.
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The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
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An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.
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An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
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The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
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The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (Carya glabra, / porcina); also, the tree itself.
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An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.
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The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
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A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
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Alt. of Hickway
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The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
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A species of hickory. See Pecan.
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Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shaped root.
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An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
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A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.
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A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.
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A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
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Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.
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