dead-eye Dick

English

Noun

dead-eye Dick (plural dead-eye Dicks)

1. A marksman who never misses.
   • 1962, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Journal - Volumes 71-72:

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

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

     "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.

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

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