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private dick noun a private detective US, 1912 Conventional use of “private” combined with DICK“You’ve been followed by a private dick I hired ever since last Wednesday night[.]” — David Gregory, Flesh Seller, pp. 115–6, 1962 The police are keeping a blanket on it, but you being a private dick would have your own sources, wouldn’t you? — Malcolm Pryce, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, p. 37, 2001 |