private eye

private eye

n.

See private investigator.

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private eye

n

(Professions) informal a private detective

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pri′vate eye′

n.
Informal.

a private detective.

[1935–40; eye, allusive phonetic rendering of I, abbr. of investigator]

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

private eye - someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information private detective, private investigator, shamus, sherlock, operative, PI detective - an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public hotel detective, house detective - a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store inquiry agent - a private detective store detective - a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage

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Translations

soukromé očkosoukromý detektiv

crunainvestigatoreinvestigatore privatoocchioprivato

private eye

n (Am) (fam) → investigatore/trice or detective m/f inv privato/a

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