sherlock

or Sher·lock

[ shur-lok ]

/ ˈʃɜr lɒk /

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noun Informal.

a private detective.

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?

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Origin of sherlock

After Sherlock Holmes, fictitious detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle

Words nearby sherlock

sherif, sheriff, sheriffalty, sheriff court, sheriffwick, sherlock, Sherlockian, Sherman, Sherman Antitrust Act, Sherman's march to the sea, Sherman, William Tecumseh

Other definitions for sherlock (2 of 2)

Sherlock

[ shur-lok ]

/ ˈʃɜr lɒk /

noun

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

How to use sherlock in a sentence

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Of course, you could protest that Sherlock did not really exist and the Ripper did.
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He is a pudgy, bespectacled, homburg-wearing cuckold of a Sherlock in those fish-grey postwar years of 1970s England.
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Conan Doyle eventually left medicine and created Sherlock Holmes, a character who brought science to the masses.
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Vincent Alsop died; a presbyterian clergyman, who attacked Dr. Sherlock with great wit and some seriousness.
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He shone as a polite scholar and a wit, and is famous for his controversy with Dr. Sherlock on the subject of the trinity.
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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.
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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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