sherlock

¹

or Sher·lock

[ shur-lok ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a private detective.
2. a person remarkably adept at solving mysteries, especially by using insight and logical deduction:

   Who's the sherlock who can tell me where my pen is?

Sherlock

²

[ shur-lok ]

noun

1. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “fair-haired.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of sherlock¹

After Sherlock Holmes, fictitious detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle

Example Sentences

Volley, for example, has some “mature” games, like Love Taps, Sherlock, and Infected, which include explicit language and content aimed at an older audience.

From MIT Technology Review

There was Sherlock, an old Cray model, that warmed my heart.

From Singularity Hub 

Sherlock Holmes is a new millennium sex symbol with books, movies, and TV episodes introducing him to a new generation of fans.

From The Daily Beast

Of course, you could protest that Sherlock did not really exist and the Ripper did.

From The Daily Beast

LONDON — If Sherlock Holmes was such a smart detective, why was he not put on the case of Jack the Ripper?

From The Daily Beast

He is a pudgy, bespectacled, homburg-wearing cuckold of a Sherlock in those fish-grey postwar years of 1970s England.

From The Daily Beast

Conan Doyle eventually left medicine and created Sherlock Holmes, a character who brought science to the masses.

From The Daily Beast

Vincent Alsop died; a presbyterian clergyman, who attacked Dr. Sherlock with great wit and some seriousness.

From Project Gutenberg

He shone as a polite scholar and a wit, and is famous for his controversy with Dr. Sherlock on the subject of the trinity.

From Project Gutenberg

He spent a great deal of his time on the front porch, finding it far from unpleasant to be regarded as a second Sherlock Holmes.

From Project Gutenberg

Sherlock Holmes is the hero of the famous detective stories of Conan Doyle.

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We speak of "a Sherlock Holmes" when we mean to describe some one who is very quick at finding out things.

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