"Dick's hatband" meaning in English

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          "word": "as fine as Dick's hatband"
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          "word": "as queer as Dick's hatband"
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          "word": "as tight as Dick's hatband"
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          "ref": "1742, James Ayres, Sancho at Court, act III, line 44:",
          "text": "A young Lady, the first or second Day of her Marriage, looks as queer as Dick's Hat-Band.",
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          "ref": "1796, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. \"Dick\"",
          "text": "I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me."
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          "ref": "2014, C.B. McKenzie, Bad Country, page 108:",
          "text": "She's sharp as a tack when she wants to be and still tight as Dick's Hatband about her money.",
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        "Used in similes as an intensifier, indicating someone or something is extremely strange, tight, etc."
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          "text": "I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me."
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