Definition of "detectives" []

• Plural form of detective. (noun)

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• "The etymologist Barry Popik, with fresh support from the phrase detectives Fred Shapiro and Gerald Cohen, has long been campaigning to give coinage honors to John J. Fitzgerald, a turf writer."
• "Pope Cody (Mendelsohn), an armed robber on the run from a gang of renegade detectives, is in hiding, surrounded by his roughneck friends and family."
• "Soon, detectives from the Park Police and the D.C. police were converging on the scene, which would extend several hundred feet from where the skull was found."