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private detectivenoun a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing personswhen the police insisted that it was an accident and not murder, she hired a private detective detective, dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw, investigator, operative, private eye, private investigator, shamus(slang), sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhound shadow, tail, tracer, trackerfed, Federal, G-man, narc(or nark, slang), plainclothesman in 1861 |