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Definition of Dick turpin
1. Noun. English highwayman (1706-1739).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dick Turpin
Literary usage of Dick turpin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs: With Illustrative Notes by William Hugh Logan, James Maidment (1869)
"RICHARD or (as he was more familiarly termed) "dick turpin," who, for a number
of years about the beginning of last century, struck terror all over the ..."
2. Untrodden English Ways by Henry Charles Shelley (1908)
"CONCERNING dick turpin HAD it not been for the idealizing pen of Harrison Ainsworth
it is likely the name of dick turpin would have been consigned to ..."
3. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"... of Hockley-in-the-Hole - Amusements at Hockley— Bear-baiting— Christopher
Preston Killed—Indian Kings >I Hockley—Bill of the Bear Garden—dick turpin. ..."
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