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Dick Turpin   /dɪk tˈərpɪn/   Listen
Dick Turpin

noun
1.
English highwayman (1706-1739).  Synonym: Turpin.





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"Dick Turpin" Quotes from Famous Books



... seem as though nearly every Rebel cavalry officer had been touched with a magic wand which filled him with the most weird and romantic views of warfare, and led him into enterprises almost as wild as any of Dick Turpin's. Fauquier County was the theatre of several of these movements by Captain Randolph, of the Black Horse Cavalry. And in these days appeared another partisan, whose name for the first time flashes out in big capitals in the official as well as other bulletins, amid ...
— Three Years in the Federal Cavalry • Willard Glazier
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Words linked to "Dick Turpin" :   hijacker, road agent, highjacker, highwayman


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