undercover

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Alperon went undercover, along with his son, and police searched the country in vain for two months before both Alperons struck a deal to turn themselves in voluntarily.

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  1. adjective Performed or occurring in secret: an undercover investigation.
  2. adjective Engaged or employed in spying or secret investigation: undercover FBI agents.

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  • It was a nasty little habit he had picked up while working undercover, and from time to time he still found himself craving one. —  Transfer of Power - Flynn
  • The Characters: David Leary -- undercover ex-cop looking for revenge sweet as honey. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 02 - February 1999
  • The reality of long-term undercover work, not the glamorous fictions of movies and television, came through, the hours of routine, the moments of terror and, most compelling, the danger of losing yourself in the lies, of seeing the cash flowing on the other side while you took home a paycheck that was barely a drop in that ocean, of working so hard to appear one of the slime that you started to become one. —  ClayYeager'sRedemption
  • Police had a heavy police presence inside Times Square -- both uniformed and undercover, according to Commissioner Ray Kelly. —  Google News - Top Stories
  • Thus I went undercover, after visiting a Halloween store to buy a belled collar, velvet cat ears and a nice piece of tail (30 inches, if you think length matters). —  Hartford Advocate: News
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