Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See private investigator.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
Examples
“My office suite was in the same building on the second floor, and from there I played private eye in between assignments from the OIA.”
“He may not've been the traditional private eye who tossed back Scotch on the job but this boy loved his beer.”
“Lauren Bacall’s telling the private eye played by Humphrey Bogart that he forgot one thing: “Me,” she says.”
“It was, however, considerably more popular and was used by every security, private eye or industrial espionage outfit that could afford the eight-thousand-dollar price tag.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘private eye’.
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eye phrases
eye appeal, eye-apple, eye-area, eye-baby, eye bank, eye-bar, eye-bath, eye-bedewing, eye-beguiling, eye-bewildering, eye-bewitching, eye-black and 320 more...
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Oh yeah? You and what army?
For more captains, see the O Captain! My Captain! list.
smarmy, an army of me, colonel sanders, colonel parker, dumbledore's army, major catastrophe, barmy, majordomo, corporal punishment, private eye, private property, private parts and 60 more...
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Snoop
Private dicks.
sherlock, sleuth, hawkshaw, investigator, gumshoe, inquirer, shamus, skip tracer, eye, private eye, private detective, private investigator and 28 more...
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Metonyms
E.g., "private eye" substitutes for Private Detective, and "suits" for CEO's, vs. "hands" for the laborers.
Tweets
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