✅ True. Despite the ad's wording, the 'Big Dick' was not a 'real' machine gun in anything but a superficial sense. It used neither gunpowder nor real metal cartridges; rather, it was a spring-action toy that fired 'bullet-shaped wooden slugs.'
Many a social media user has delighted in sharing what looks to be a vintage advertisement offering a rather unusual toy for boys — a"real rapid-fire machine gun" amusingly named the"Big Dick":
The pictured item was indeed a real toy vended in the early part of the 20th century. This ad appeared in, for example, theissue of Little Folks, a children's magazine , at a time when the recently concluded Great War in Europe had unfortunately lent that weapon a good deal of public prominence: Despite the wording of the ad, the"Big Dick" was not a"real" machine gun in anything but a superficial sense.
Charting the course of spoken language across the years is somewhat difficult. But it appears that although the modern meaning of"dick" as a
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