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hawkshaw (iou)



hawkshaw noun. Also Hawkshaw. E20.
[A detective in The Ticket-of-Leave Man, a play by Tom Taylor (1817-80), English dramatist; also in the comic strip Hawkshaw the Detective by Augustus Charles ('Gus') Mager (1878-1956), Amer. cartoonist.]
A detective.