house detective
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of house detective
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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He’s got the look of a house detective.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 27, 2020
Another principal figure was the arrested Hilton Hotel house detective, 39-year-old Ed Murphy.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2012
I was asked more than once to leave the Plaza Hotel, ushered out by the house detective.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2012
The booming state of California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective.
From Time Magazine Archive
Send up your house detective and be quick!
From The Firefly of France by Marion Polk Angellotti
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