Pinkerton
English
Proper noun
Pinkerton (plural Pinkertons)
- A Scottish and Northern Irish habitational surname for someone from a place of that name near Dunbar.
Noun
Pinkerton (plural Pinkertons)
- (dated, countable) An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884).
- 1950, "Kiss the Donkey," Time, 4 Sep.,
- He joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton.
- 1950, "Kiss the Donkey," Time, 4 Sep.,
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