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  • noun idiomatic A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.

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  • noun someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

Etymologies

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From private investigator and its abbreviation P.I., through the homophonic term eye in place of "I", and the used of eye as a reference to survellience

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