Pinkerton

[ ping-ker-tuhn ]

noun

Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.

Words Nearby Pinkerton

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

How to use Pinkerton in a sentence

An aide to Princes William and Harry, Jamie Lowther Pinkerton, was hacked 416 times from the Wapping office.
8 Lessons From the Murdoch Phone Hacking Trial | Peter Jukes | December 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
From a season spent embedded with the New York Jets to a biography of a self-mythologizing Pinkerton detective.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Nov. 18, 2013 | Thomas Flynn | November 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
After the first few meet and greets, Lowther-Pinkerton got him a glass of water.
The Reinvention of Prince Harry: Why His U.S. Visit Is a Huge Success | Tom Sykes | May 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Harry's right-hand man Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton got him a glass of water.
Prince Harry's U.S. Tour: Rolling Updates and all the News and Pictures as It Happens | Tom Sykes | May 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
This allowed him to deliver actual Confederate documents to Pinkerton, along with his observations.
Second ‘Underwear Bomber,’ Kim Philby, and Other Notorious Double Agents | The Daily Beast | May 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

Does not the Pinkerton janizary represent organized authority, forever crushing the toiler in the interest of the exploiters?
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
And then the problem that Pinkerton laid down: why the artist can do nothing else?
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. Pinkerton, in his Scottish Iconographia, published an engraving of this curious portrait.
The Abbot | Sir Walter Scott
Vanderveer was very brief, but to the point, in the examination of the local head of the Pinkerton Agency.
The Everett massacre | Walker C. Smith
Mr. Pinkerton was of a very amiable and pious spirit, devoted to his Master's work.
Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire | Thomas Coleman

British Dictionary definitions for Pinkerton

Pinkerton

/ (ˈpɪŋkətən) /

noun

Allan. 1819–84, US private detective, born in Scotland. He founded the first detective agency in the US (1850) and organized an intelligence system for the Federal States of America (1861)

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Browse