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hawkshaw

hawks·haw

uncommon dated obsolete

noun

1.

someone who is a detective

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Origin

From Hawkshaw the Detective, a character in Tom Taylor's 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man. The name was later borrowed in the early 20th century for a character in an American comic strip.

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