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Tec   /tɛk/   Listen
Tec

noun
1.
A police officer who investigates crimes.  Synonyms: detective, investigator, police detective.





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"Tec" Quotes from Famous Books



... ethic. After his narrow scrape with Jason's quantum analyzer in the Berlin incident, it hadn't taken long for a good, one-man detective agency to locate Physlab Nine's frenetic genius, Moglaut. It had taken longer to discover Moglaut's currency but, after much shadowing, the 'tec had come through handsomely. Lonnie, automatically applying his fully-developed Ethic One, always considered it a nice sentimental touch that the one-man agency's final case ...
— Zero Data • Charles Saphro
... a tec standing alongside of 'im, said it was quite right, and put it into 'is pocket in a hurry and began to talk to the tec as fast as he could about a murder he 'ad been reading about in the paper that morning. ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs


Words linked to "Tec" :   officer, dick, hawkshaw, plainclothesman, gumshoe, tracer, police officer, policeman


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