English
Proper noun
en-proper-noun|Pinkertons
- A Scottish and Northern Irish habitational surname for someone from a place of that name near Dunbar
- w:Allan Pinkerton|Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), Scottish-born founder of a American detective agency involved in early anti-union and strikebreaking activity.
- context|dated|countable An operative employed by the w:Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency|Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
#*1950, "Kiss the Donkey," Time, 4 Sep.,
#*:He joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton.
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