Definition of "hawkshaw" [hawkshaw]

• Detective. (noun)

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• "He's a hilarious hawkshaw... with a case on Dottie!"
• "Like a hawkshaw, I stumbled through the gate to find out that media had to wait with everyone else."
• "Fred Shapiro, the etymological hawkshaw who edits the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, found the earliest use to date of this useful word in a 1950 article in American Historical Review by Chester Destler, a name not easy to say fast."