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A.Word.A.Day--hawkshaw Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio hawkshaw (HAWK-shaw) noun A detective. [After Hawkshaw, a detective in the play The Ticket of Leave Man (1863) by Tom Taylor.] "Conductor: Hawkshaw Junction. Change here Gumshoe, Flatfoot, Sleuthhound, and Beagle." Claire Boiko, Murder on the Orient Express Subway, Plays, Mar 1995. This week's theme: eponyms derived from fact and fiction. X-Bonus The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -Andrew S. Tanenbaum, computer science professor (1944- )

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