dick
v.— «Last summer, officers said that they were convinced that British troops were being expertly “dicked”—kept under surveillance—by unknown hostile elements intent on working out their patterns of movement and response to incidents.» —“Basra blasts show nowhere is safe now” by Stephen Farrell in Baghdad, Iraq Times (London, England) Apr. 22, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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