What does private dick mean?

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private dick

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English

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noun

Colloquial

"‘Private dick, eh?’ he said, not looking at me at all, but looking out of his window."

private dicks (plural)

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