Usually means: Private security and detective agency.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pinkerton: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Pinkerton: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pinkerton, pinkerton: Wordnik
  4. Pinkerton: Wiktionary
  5. Pinkerton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Pinkerton: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Pinkerton: Dictionary.com
  8. Pinkerton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Pinkerton (album), Pinkerton (detective agency), Pinkerton (disambiguation), Pinkerton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pinkerton: Rhymezone
  11. Pinkerton: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Pinkerton: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pinkerton: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pinkerton: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pinkerton: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pinkerton)

noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.
noun:  (dated, countable) An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884).

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