plainclothesman

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
plainclothesman
    n 1: a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "plainclothesman":
      Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, Secret Service,
      Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, detective, dick, fed, hawkshaw,
      hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent,
      investigator, narc, operative, police detective, private detective,
      private investigator, revenuer, sleuth, store detective, tec,
      treasury agent

    

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