house dick

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   a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store

   Synonymshotel detectivehouse detective

   Broaderprivate detective

Questions about house dick

What does house dick mean?

house dick means "a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store".

What is another word for house dick?

Close synonyms include hotel detective, house detective. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is house dick a common word?

house dick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.