house detective

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house detective Meaning of "house detective"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store

Synonym(s)

house dick

Usage(s):

  1. The house detective in a Pittsburgh hotel.
  2. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that they add up to $10,000blackmail.
  3. In the morning, a house detective found a velvet mask, a revolver, in the trunk of one Eric Nelson, British, in the cubicle overhead.
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