单词 | hawkshaw |
释义 | hawkshawn. A detective; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > detective plant1812 plain clothes1822 detective1850 plainclothesman1856 mouser1863 D.1869 sleuth1872 tec1879 dee1882 demon1889 sleuth-hound1890 split1891 fink1903 hawkshaw1903 busy1904 dick1905 gumshoe1913 Richard1914 shamus1925 cozzer1950 Five-O1983 c1863 T. Taylor in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays in 19th Cent. (1969) II. 77 The Ticket-of-Leave Man... Cast..Hawkshaw, a detective.] 1903 ‘H. McHugh’ Back to Woods iii. 59 He didn't even whimper when the village Hawkshaw snapped the bracelets on his wrist. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §460/18 Hawk, hawkshaw, heavy foot, hot hand. 1967 N. Mailer Cannibals & Christians i. 40 The hawkshaw geist of the F.B.I. 1968 Listener 15 Feb. 214/1 A ‘Treasury hawkshaw’, charged with seizing and selling up Confederate cotton. 1973 R. Travers Murder in Blue Mountains x. 96 The ‘Hawkshaws from the Antipodes’ as the [San Francisco] Bulletin called Roche and his men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1903 |
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