Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A detective.
Etymologies
- After Sherlock Holmes, detective in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Lai warns of the perils of massive Chinese imports -- no shit, sherlock, that is why every country around China restricts Chinese exports to itself.”
“Related posts: serge, drums i can't stop watching this video where they solo the ... email exchanges between lance, the king of black metal from ... carl "sherlock" holmes my favourite sound is a blog that posts lots of ...”
“- Comments Feed tiki god (UID#1) on September 3rd, 2009 at 4: 58 pm you know, anonymous is everyone, so you get all sorts of weird combination of people on there at any given time. apparently this was the pedo/moralf*g combination. maybe a bit sherlock thrown in too, lol”
“They used his dead body to be the one at “Reiha Pass” … sounds like rechienbach falls to me (where sherlock faked his death).”
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“April 9th, 2010 at 1: 25 pm muzz (brought to you by Screaming Yellow Zonkers) says: noshit sherlock”
“And the URL is www. johnjosephadams.com/sherlock-holmes”
“April 23, 2009 6: 48 AM emily jane sherlock said ...”
“Some of my targets have unicorn or rocketship or sherlock-with-magnifying-glass stickers on the spines, depending on when it was accessioned, which helps.”
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“Filed under: Movies, Politics | Tagged: sherlock holmes 2009, warner home video con”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sherlock’.
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katiad's Words
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The Wørd
Trademark of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
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Snoop
Private dicks.
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