'tec

See also: tec, Tec, and TEC

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

'tec (plural 'tecs)

(slang) A detective.
- 1909, W.W. Jacobs, Self-Help
  "You're a marvel, that's wot you are," ses the 'tec, shaking his 'ead. "Have one with me."
- 1963, Barbara Euphan Todd, Jill Crockford, Detective Worzel Gummidge
  A collection of battered churns, looking like the jars for Ali-Baba's thieves, stood at one end of the room. A 'tec could hide in one of those, thought Robin.

Anagrams

CET, CTE, ECT, ETC, TCE, etc, etc., tce

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