dicky (dickey)

dicky (dickey)
1 adjective BrE informal weak, and likely to break or not work properly: dicky heart/ticker (=a heart that is weak and not very healthy) 2 noun (C) a false shirt front sometimes worn by a man under a jacket

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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