HAWKSHAW Definition & Meaning

hawkshaw

[ hawk-shaw ]

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noun

a detective.

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Origin of hawkshaw¹

1900–05; after Hawkshaw, a detective in the play The Ticket of Leave Man (1863) by Tom Taylor

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In short and in fine, Mullinix no more resembled the traditional hawkshaw than Miss Mildred Smith resembled the fashionable conception of a fashionable artist.

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