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- noun dated, 19th C
Detective .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who is a detective
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Examples
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He's a hilarious hawkshaw... with a case on Dottie!
MOVIE: My Favorite Brunette - 1947 Zen Tiger 2008
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He's a hilarious hawkshaw... with a case on Dottie!
Archive 2008-08-17 Zen Tiger 2008
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Like a hawkshaw, I stumbled through the gate to find out that media had to wait with everyone else.
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Fred Shapiro, the etymological hawkshaw who edits the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, found the earliest use to date of this useful word in a 1950 article in American Historical Review by Chester Destler, a name not easy to say fast.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Fred Shapiro, the etymological hawkshaw who edits the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, found the earliest use to date of this useful word in a 1950 article in American Historical Review by Chester Destler, a name not easy to say fast.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Fred Shapiro, the etymological hawkshaw who edits the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, found the earliest use to date of this useful word in a 1950 article in American Historical Review by Chester Destler, a name not easy to say fast.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Fred Shapiro, the etymological hawkshaw who edits the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, found the earliest use to date of this useful word in a 1950 article in American Historical Review by Chester Destler, a name not easy to say fast.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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In short and in fine, Mullinix no more resembled the traditional hawkshaw than
From Place to Place 1910
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Faithless - Insomnia - CEC Radio Mix. mp3 fragma and kirsty hawkshaw - radio waves. mp3
Fulldls.com 2009
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