Pinkerton

  1. Proper noun.  (surname, Scottish and Northern Irish habitational) for someone from a place of that name near Dunbar.
  2. Proper noun.  (context, dated) An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884).

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