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Pink, n.9 slang abbrev. of Pinkerton.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing i. 6 Don't you know me? I'm one of the Pinks. Ibid. xxiii. 263 Pink had me framed and it was like finding rags to the pusher... The cashier..picked my picture from the Rogues' gallery, where Pinkerton placed it some time ago. 1955D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 141 The agency is called the eye..and its operators are sometimes called pinks. 1975J. Gores Hammett (1976) i. 16, I was a Pink... A detective for the Pinkerton Agency. |