Crossword clues for plainclothes
Wiktionary
a. (context usually of a police officer English) wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection. n. Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.
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Usage examples of "plainclothes".
Right behind them were a couple of plainweave carpets that carried plainclothes constables.
Since the onset of Nazidom he had learned to recognize a common and tragic characteristic in many of them, and that was a deep-seated terror of plainclothes police officers.
Plainclothes cops in latex gloves were gathering up bits and pieces and putting them in ziplock bags.
The middle and upper-income people promptly moved farther out, and lower-middle-income people like plainclothes detectives moved into Twin Knolls in their place.
The owner of the bar had recognized them as plainclothes policemen and had filled and refilled their glasses, quietly and with a hurt smile on his cadaverous face.
Can I explain to a plainclothes man about gauzy blouses, long flared skirts, superbitchy underwear, chokers, earrings, pins and clips?
The big black-haired plainclothes man bonged his private spittoon again and said: "I hear the mayor changed his underpants, but it's just a rumor.
His first thought wasn’t comforting: if the lady with the sad, sexy mouth, stubborn chin, and baggy black sweat suit hadn’t noticed the plainclothes cop hanging around the turnoff to the cottage, she was either too stupid or too innocent for whatever game Kyle was playing.
Plainclothes police officers materialized and camera crews leapt about balletically recording the capture.
The reporters noted that security was very tight, with what looked to be a full company of Air Police in view, plus the plainclothes Secret Service agents.
Nearby was a trio of plainclothes officers of the Baltimore City Police, who exchanged credentials with the USSS to confirm identity, and so another day started for SURGEON and SANDBOX.
She goes to the cops, and what does this bright Bay City plainclothes officer do?
The following day, both uniformed air-force officers and plainclothes government men visited the Caswell house among others.
One was a local plainclothes man, a comic relief clown who chewed cut plug.
I took the first half of a deep breath, nodded toward him as casually as a pickpocket saying 'Good morning' to a plainclothes cop.