| Definitions | | Pinkerton |
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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.
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