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Police detective   /pəlˈis dɪtˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Police detective

noun
1.
A police officer who investigates crimes.  Synonyms: detective, investigator, tec.






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"Police detective" Quotes from Famous Books



... this girl who had made a place of warmth for herself in my heart in less than a day, whose loyalty to my boy I was certain I might count on. How different this affair must look to them from the face it wore to me, an old police detective, who had bulled through many inquiries like this, the corpse itself, perhaps, lying in the back of the room, instead of the blood-stain we had there on the rug; what was practically the Third Degree being applied to relatives and friends; with the squalid prospect of a court ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan



Words linked to "Police detective" :   tracer, plainclothesman, hawkshaw, policeman, dick, officer, gumshoe, police officer



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