See Also: Richard(dictionary)
Little Richard(encyclopedia)
Richard I(encyclopedia)
Richard III(encyclopedia)
Day, Richard(medicine)
Day, Richard L(medicine)
Richard II(encyclopedia)
Richard(medicine)
Wilson, Richard(encyclopedia)
Roberts, Richard(encyclopedia)

Richard (iou)



Richard noun. M17.
[Male forename; in sense 2 joc. back-form. from DICK noun3, in sense 3 rhyming slang for BIRD noun.]
A kind of apple. rare. M17-E18.
A detective. slang. E20.
A girl, a woman. Also more fully Richard the Third. rhyming slang. M20.
Comb.: Richard Roe Law (now US) an anonymous party, usu. the defendant, in a legal action, formerly spec. (English Law) in the now obsolete action of ejectment (cf. JOHN Doe (a)).