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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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Noun | 1. | ![]() 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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soukromé očkosoukromý detektiv
private eye
n (Am) (fam) → investigatore/trice or detective m/f inv privato/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995