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单词 hawkshaw
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hawkshawn.

/ˈhɔːkʃɔː/
Forms: Also Hawkshaw.
Etymology: Name of a detective in The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863), a play by Tom Taylor, English dramatist (1817–1880); also in the comic strip Hawkshaw the Detective, by Gus Mager, American cartoonist (d. 1956).
A detective; also attributive.
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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).
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