"dicksmith" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dick + smith, from the shameful tendency of some sailors to acquire venereal diseases.",
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          "ref": "2000, Steven L. Waterman, “USS Ortolan, ASR-22”, in Just a Sailor: A Navy Diver’s Story of Photography, Salvage, and Combat, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 272",
          "text": "It was a mixture of pure medical alcohol and Navy-issue canned orange juice. Once the fire went out a little, I kind of liked it. We had a few more, the dicksmiths (the divers’ name for corpsmen who are qualified divers) said “Happy New Year,” and I left for home.",
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          "ref": "2001, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, chapter 20, in Detachment Bravo, Atria Books",
          "text": "I hit the starter, but all I got was the kind of halfhearted cough I give out when the friendly dicksmith is (squeeze-squeeze) testing me for hernia.",
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          "ref": "2006, Donald G. Johnson, American Sailor: More Adventures to Go with the Job, iUniverse, Inc.",
          "text": "All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait.",
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          "ref": "2013, K. W. Hearth, A Common Thread, Abbott Press, pages 25, 27, and 30",
          "text": "No one could mistake Doc for a Dicksmith (slang for corpsman, medic).[…]You’re a dicksmith (medic)?[…]A couple of areas, medicine and chamber operation, really appealed to Doc. Being a dicksmith, they would.",
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        "A United States Navy hospital corpsman."
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        "(vulgar, slang) A United States Navy hospital corpsman."
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          "ref": "2000, Steven L. Waterman, “USS Ortolan, ASR-22”, in Just a Sailor: A Navy Diver’s Story of Photography, Salvage, and Combat, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, page 272",
          "text": "It was a mixture of pure medical alcohol and Navy-issue canned orange juice. Once the fire went out a little, I kind of liked it. We had a few more, the dicksmiths (the divers’ name for corpsmen who are qualified divers) said “Happy New Year,” and I left for home.",
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          "text": "I hit the starter, but all I got was the kind of halfhearted cough I give out when the friendly dicksmith is (squeeze-squeeze) testing me for hernia.",
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          "ref": "2006, Donald G. Johnson, American Sailor: More Adventures to Go with the Job, iUniverse, Inc.",
          "text": "All of a sudden the dicksmith started hard-assing one of the deck apes for lifting his pogey bait.",
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