private dick

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private dick (plural private dicks)

  1. (colloquial) A private investigator; a private detective.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 130:
      ‘Private dick, eh?’ he said, not looking at me at all, but looking out of his window.
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