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English
Etymology
From dick + whacker.
Noun
dickwhacker (plural dickwhackers)
- (vulgar) A fool.
1992, Noel Virtue, “Revival Week”, in Tom Wakefield, editor, The Ten Commandments, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 184:He can’t look after himself anymore. Up until a couple of years back I used to go down on the coach to see him from where I now live but he'd started to forget who I was. Mr Ritter had become a bit of a dickwhacker. The doctors called it senile dementia. He kept asking me to take him bags of blackballs and bunches of Canna lilies when I visited and told everyone that I was his young wife.
2011, Robert R. McCammon, The Five, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 324:That little dickwhacker wanted to be seen, because in addition to the orange topper he was wearing bright blue plastic sandals, a common type of cheap footwear for these ragheads.