1. A man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt; SYN. dickie, dicky, shirtfront.
2. (British English) A small 3rd seat in the back of an old-fashioned 2-seat car; SYN. dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat.

(Lafayette) (1923-) US poet, critic, and novelist. His fiction deals mainly with guilt arising from acts of individual or collective cruelty and the struggle for survival. His powerful best seller Deliverance 1970 (filmed 1972) is a menacing thriller about four men canoeing down a dangerous river. His poetry, initially conservative, turned to more open forms as in The Central Motion: Poems 1968–1978 1979.

City in North Dakota (USA); zip code 58431.