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I always thought it was a progression from "Richard" to "Rich" to "Rick" to "Dick." The real question is why do people choose to go by Dick rather than rich or rick? No one wants to be a Dick...

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People name dick is known as an insult very offensively. This should not be said to people unless you want a problem

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11y ago

Nobody really knows! It's been around since the late 19th Century, though. Here's a good link to an article about all the slang uses of the word "dick."

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it was a name first

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