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House detective's item
Answer for the clue "House detective's item ", 7 letters:
passkey
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. key that secures entrance everywhere [syn: passe-partout , master key , master ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Mauss bought the passkey back, thwarting the anarchists' plans. ▪ The night porter used a passkey for those rooms that were empty or where no-one answered. ▪ Well yes, but in those sorts of terms complementarity becomes a passkey ...
Usage examples of passkey.
In the breathless moment of arrival, before any of them inhaled or exhaled, Dylan heard the click of a passkey in a lock and then the scrape of the deadbolt being disengaged in a slow and cautious fashion meant to make as little noise as feasible.
Others from the emergency force, assisted by hotel staff, used passkeys to check rooms from which there bad been no response.
Plan Three was an elaborate escape that Plumm had erected against such an eventuality with false passports, valid air tickets, ready luggage, clothes, disguises and covers, even including passkeys to airplane waiting areas without going through Immigration that had a ninety-five percent chance of success given an hour's notice.
Plan Three was an elaborate escape that Plumm had erected against such an eventuality-with false passports, valid air tickets, ready luggage, clothes, disguises and covers, even including passkeys to airplane waiting areas without going through Immigration-that had a ninety-five percent chance of success given an hour's notice.
I pulled into the parking garage entrance, but I was stopped by a machine that demanded a passkey.
Moreover, she was without gloves and handbag and had to be let in to her rooms with a passkey, because, as she explained, she had lost hers.