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HAWKSHAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hawkshaw mean? 

HAWKSHAW (noun)
  The noun HAWKSHAW has 1 sense:

1. someone who is a detectiveplay

  Familiarity information: HAWKSHAW used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HAWKSHAW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is a detective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dick; gumshoe; hawkshaw

Hypernyms ("hawkshaw" is a kind of...):

detective; investigator; police detective; tec (a police officer who investigates crimes)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)


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