Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.
WordNet
n. someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information [syn: private detective, PI, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock]
Wikipedia
Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical and current affairs magazine based in London, England, edited by Ian Hislop.
Since its first publication in 1961, Private Eye has been a prominent critic and lampooner of public figures and entities that it deems guilty of any of the sins of incompetence, inefficiency, corruption, pomposity or self-importance and it has established itself as a thorn in the side of the British establishment.
It is Britain's best-selling current affairs magazine, and such is its long-term popularity and impact that many recurring in-jokes from Private Eye have entered popular culture.
Private Eye is a video game produced and published by Activision and released in 1983 for the Atari 2600 video game system. Designed by Bob Whitehead, who also wrote Chopper Command, Private Eye requires players to track down clues and recover items stolen by a master criminal, ultimately leading to his capture and arrest.
"Private Eye" is a song by the Chicago-based punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as the second single from their 2001 album From Here to Infirmary. Two different versions of the single were released in the United Kingdom, where it reached #51 on the UK Singles Chart
The song's music video is compiled from live footage of the band performing "Private Eye" on several dates of their 2000 tour, with touring drummer Adam Willard filling in following Mike Felumlee's departure from the group.
Private Eye (; lit. "Shadow Murder") is a 2009 South Korean period film noir directed by Park Dae-min.
Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.
Usage examples of "private eye".
One with access to a good private eye could pull it off, but it would still take a private guy longer unless he’.
But I sensed Ma's attitude had more to do with the fact he'd been called away from his own fireside than with my status as a private eye.
The real work of a private eye had nothing in common with the glamorous stuff depicted on television and in books.
She was joking about ditching Harvard and becoming a private eye—.
Since I'd become a private eye, I'd never stolen or killed for hire.
And if you say anything cute about this being a big switch, the cops calling in a private eye for help on a murder case, I won't like it much.
In addition to those three, he had young Holly, and Joe Boy, a local private eye with incredibly soft feet, and Dante, a black ex-cop from D.