hawkshaw
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hawkshaw
1900–05; after Hawkshaw, a detective in the play The Ticket of Leave Man (1863) by Tom Taylor
Example Sentences
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Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believes a referee's job calls for neither a blind man nor a hawkshaw, prefers to keep the show going rather than call every infraction of football's 65 pages of rules.
From Time Magazine Archive
A welcome relief from him was William Culkn, in the role of the obtuse hawkshaw.
From Time Magazine Archive
In short and in fine, Mullinix no more resembled the traditional hawkshaw than Miss Mildred Smith resembled the fashionable conception of a fashionable artist.
From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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