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Hawkshaw

noun
1.
Someone who is a detective.  Synonyms: dick, gumshoe.






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"Hawkshaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... from behind a limber a la HAWKSHAW the Detective). It is not too late! Return with me to Westminster forthwith. The Third Reading is down for to-night! With a special train we shall be in time! You can yet record ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. March 14, 1891. • Various

... couldn't blame me for sitting up all night, if you had to sleep in a thing like this.' She didn't hear anything more, because she hates eavesdropping. Besides, she thought she heard the maid walking toward the door. Now, what do you make of that, Mr. Hawkshaw?" ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

... Esmond had, was at fourteen years of age, with Bryan Hawkshaw, Sir John Hawkshaw's son, of Bramblebrook, who, advancing this opinion, that my lady was jealous and henpecked my lord, put Harry in such a fury, that Harry fell on him and with such rage, that the other boy, who was two years ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray

... "Okay, Hawkshaw. That's enough deduction for one morning. Take a look at that sky. Have you heard a ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin



Words linked to "Hawkshaw" :   colloquialism, police detective, investigator, tec, detective



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