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Deadeye Dick
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Deadeye Dick
en informal en dead-eye Dick.
1958 Jan. 6, "It's a bullseye or nothing in this African Manhood Test" (advertisement), Life, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 81 (retrieved 1 Jan 2016):
You have to be Deadeye Dick to become a Masai warrior. . . . [H]e must pass a spear-throwing test.
en 1979 July Bob Brister Shooting: Silhouettes https://books.google.ca/books?id=nUuwupCjhGQC&pg=PA84&dq=%22Deadeye+Dick%22+-Cheney+-Vonnegut+-band+-music+-Gilbert+-Sullivan&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0742SkojKAhWJPz4KHV_1DpYQ6AEISTAH#v=onepage&q=%22Deadeye%20Dick%22%20-Cheney%20-Vonnegut%20-band%20-music%20-Gilbert%20-Sullivan&f=false Field & Stream 1 Jan 2016 84 How would you like to be the envy of your friends, a real Deadeye Dick of a rifle shot?
en 1997 w:Frank Bank Call Me Lumpy 9781461604235 https://books.google.ca/books?id=LcMaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108&dq=%22Deadeye+Dicks%22+-Cheney+-Vonnegut+-band+-music+-Gilbert+-Sullivan&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx2OzYlIjKAhXHHT4KHREdCJYQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=%22Deadeye%20Dicks%22%20-Cheney%20-Vonnegut%20-band%20-music%20-Gilbert%20-Sullivan&f=false 108 Davey Freakin' Crockett couldn't have hit the bull's eye better than I did. Talk about your Deadeye Dicks.
en July 25 2015 Deadeye Dick Misses The Mark Again https://gerrbear.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/deadeye-dick-misses-the-mark-again/ gerrbear.wordpress.com 1 Jan 2016 Former Vice President Dick Cheney earned the moniker Deadeye Dick when he accidentally shot an acquaintance in the face. https://web.archive.org/web/20250818201817/https://gerrbear.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/deadeye-dick-misses-the-mark-again/ 18 August 2025
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