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hawkshaw

[ hawk-shaw ]

noun

  1. 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.

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