dicksmith

A United States Navy hospital corpsman.

Noun

  1. A United States Navy hospital corpsman.
    • It was a mixture of pure medical alcohol and Navy-issue canned orange juice. Once the fire went out a little, I kind of liked it. We had a few more, the dicksmiths (the divers’ name for corpsmen who are qualified...
    • I hit the starter, but all I got was the kind of halfhearted cough I give out when the friendly dicksmith is (squeeze-squeeze) testing me for hernia. - 2001, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, chapter 20, in Detachment...
    • All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait. - 2006, Donald G. Johnson, American Sailor: More Adventures to Go with the Job, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:

Origin

From dick + smith, from the shameful tendency of some sailors to acquire venereal diseases.

Forms

dicksmiths