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queer as Dick's hatband

adj

Etymology

A variant (the earliest attested and formerly most common) of the phrase Dick's hatband

Definitions

  1. Very queer

    Very queer: very unusual or strange.

    • A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band.

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