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undercover cop
noun as in inquirer
noun as in investigator
Example Sentences
Bill Crowley, macho counterpart to undercover cop Angie Dickinson on “Police Woman” from 1974 to ’78.
“Our Gang” child actor grew up to play TV undercover cop “Baretta” and was tried and acquitted in the shooting death of his wife.
Al Pacino’s fully committed performance as an undercover cop and the story’s slippery sexual politics rattled nerves in every direction; critically and commercially, the movie barely lived up to the excitement of its controversy.
He’d been making reckless drug deals, and sold $40 of crack to an undercover cop on Second and Pike.
On the album, the idea is the travails of a stuffed toy; in one special in his Netflix stand-up series “Repertoire,” Acaster began with the idea of his being an undercover cop, “and by the end you’ve got a show that is about a breakup you’ve had,” he said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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