Definition of private eye in English:
private eye
noun ˌprʌɪvɪt ˈʌɪpraɪvət ˈaɪ
informal A private detective.
Example sentencesExamples
- Tracing people is just one of the jobs private eyes take to make ends meet.
- Parker's Spenser is the best private eye in American detective fiction and has been for at least the past 20 years.
- And Donald was a great character, a detective in the classic sense of an old-school private eye detective.
- Jack's a hard-boiled private eye who narrates the entire film in voice-over, and who finds himself investigating an ancient Egyptian cult that worships chainsaws.
- I thought I was watching some television detective show where the private eye puts together the clues and reveals the killer, who then admits all and is ready to be taken away.