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dick-pointers


speedo style bathers: Check out the dick-pointers on that bloke!

Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] I remember during my teens a friend's mother referring to DPs. When I asked what they were, my friend explained that his mother was too polite to say "dick pokers." I'd heard of dick stickers before, but this one was new to me.

Contributor's comments: I came from Wollongong, and the term most often used was DP's - short for Dick Pointers (for obvious reasons).

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Newcastle but live in Wollongong - my son was the first person I ever heard refer to speedos as DPs, and since then I've heard other Wollongong people use the term. I certainly never heard it in Newcastle.

Contributor's comments: We schoolkids n SE-Qld in the '80s and '90s frequently called them meathangers, cockjocks or dickpointers, rather than dick-stickers/pokers.

Contributor's comments: Growing up Sydney - Inner West , we called sluggos or male speedos "dick pointers".

Contributor's comments: We've used this in Melbourne (Eastern Suburbs) since I was a kid in the 70s.