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hawkshaw
[ hawk-shaw ]
noun
- a detective.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hawkshaw1
1900–05; after Hawkshaw, a detective in the play The Ticket of Leave Man (1863) by Tom Taylor
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Example Sentences
In short and in fine, Mullinix no more resembled the traditional hawkshaw than Miss Mildred Smith resembled the fashionable conception of a fashionable artist.
From Project Gutenberg
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