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Private eye   /prˈaɪvət aɪ/   Listen
Private eye

noun
1.
Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.  Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private investigator, shamus, sherlock.






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"Private eye" Quotes from Famous Books



... to an old charter I should have had for embattling and making a deep ditch. But here am I laughing when I really ought to cry, both with my public eye and my private one. I have told you what I think ought to sluice my public eye; and your private eye too will moisten, when I tell you that poor Miss Harriet Montagu is dead. She died about a fortnight ago; but having nothing else to tell you, I would not send a letter so far with only such melancholy news-and so, you will say, I stayed till I could tell still more bad news. The truth ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole



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