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detectivenoun a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing personsthe code used by the serial killer in his letters to the police was actually cracked by an amateur detective dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw, investigator, operative, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus(slang), sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhound shadow, tail, tracer, trackerfed, Federal, G-man, narc(or nark, slang), plainclothesman in 1732 |