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Tec   /tɛk/   Listen
Tec

noun
1.
A police officer who investigates crimes.  Synonyms: detective, investigator, police detective.






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"Tec" Quotes from Famous Books



... the girl, with a smile. "I'm just Josie O'Gorman, a student detective, who makes as many blunders—alas!—as a full-fledged 'tec.' But I thought I'd be able to help, or I wouldn't have come. I've a personal interest in this case, Mary Louise, because it's your case and I love you. So let's get to work. Have you a ...
— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum

... You can stand a pleasant surprise, I am sure," and, with that, the detective led the way across the hall, leaving the youthful Jew in a maze of conflicting emotions, for, according to all the rules of the game as played in the dime novel, the tec' should have sprung on his prey like a tiger. Another person whose nervous system received a shock was the super-clerk. He, like the boy, knew of the network of suspicion which had closed on Curtis during the past two hours, and he had watched ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy



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