Detectives

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. ❋ William Safire (2004)

From my review: The interplay between the detectives is drolly portrayed, with Sigurdur Oli as smug and rigid as ever - until his own personal happiness is threatened - and Elinborg is obsessed with her cookery book which is being published and publicised in parallel with the investigation. ❋ Maxine (2009)

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. ❋ Henri Cauvin (2010)

Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The violence erupted after arrests earlier yesterday in connection with an inquiry into Ulster Volunteer Force murders originally carried out by the Historical Enquiries Team and now headed by detectives from the Northern Ireland police service. ❋ Henry McDonald (2010)

Their narrators are also the main detectives in their plots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He calls the detectives who spoke to her earlier today and they say she seemed nervous, but put it down to the events of the last week. ❋ Paul Cleave (2010)

Six months later, as Shion leaves for school with her friends, one of the detectives is tailing her at the request of her parents. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And when I called detectives just about an hour ago to confirm all of this information, they said, We ` ve gotten a lot of information, but we can confirm that it ` s something we ` ve heard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Present were one of the detectives from the previous day, a small and very tense captain of police with orange hair, a stenographer, and Giuliano Mignini, sitting behind a desk. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Detection and detectives is another topic altogether. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Are you wondering how I traced your plastic [bouncy ball] thievery to the Burlington sewer under the bakery, the bakery containing [your cousin's] meth lab where he singlehandedly produces all desoxyephedrine sold to the state of Vermont, in which a law was passed that specifically outlaws the robbery and transport of plastic bouncy objects and that you are currently in violation of? It is because I am a Detective. You shall be fined [fifteen dollars]. ❋ Detective Kernel (2010)

"It wasn't a regular [cop that] called me it was a Detective!" "This is serious, Call the detectives" "[The Detective] [solved] the crime" ❋ BobbyA4 (2013)

You have [detected] first [result] for [detect]. ❋ Detect Is My Only Definition (2021)

Friend: Hey [Fundo], wanna hang out with me and a couple of chicks tonight? Fundo: I can't. I got a [hot date] tonight. Friend: What's her name? Fundo: [Lacy]. Friend: Where you taking her? Fundo: Damn, man. Who are you? The fuckin' detective?! ❋ AuthOOr (2006)

"[Man bruh] I totally made [a thread] about whether to pick up this chick who I saw at the gym watching me work my [gluts] and I all got a message from her talking about that thread! I got detectived! You detectives detectived me! Weak bruh." ❋ Shiggity (2014)

[Threat] has been detected. The [thief] has been detected by [the security] camera. ❋ IYM (2019)

[Detective] Tommy [Sutherland] was [creeping around] again. ❋ 0nslaught-teh-ph33red-h4x0r (2005)

detective: (noun) uuuummmmm I believe that you are not suposed to be on your [cellular device] . a gay little bitch snitch [hoe slut] [cum sack] poon.a little snitch. ❋ Blake Simonson 69 (2018)

“there’s no one that solves crimes like grimes” ___ Woman 1: omg my sisters missing Woman 2: wait I know who to call Woman 1: you do? [Junior grimes]: what seems to be the problem? Woman 1: it’s my sister! Junior grimes: not to worry, for no one better to call then [mr grimes]! Woman 2: see? I told you, he’s the best Woman 1: wow ___ Junior grimes is the greatest [private detective] OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!! ❋ Assassin Technical Institute (2021)

"The goth detectives can get the [job done] in [48 hours]!" "We could [get it done] quicker, if we weren't so bloody miserable!" ❋ Naboo That's Who (2008)