Hawk|shaw

Hawk|shaw
Hawk|shaw or hawk|shaw «HK sh», noun.
a detective.
[< Hawkshaw, the clever detective in The Ticket-of-Leave Man, by Tom Taylor, an English writer, 1817-1880]

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