PINKERTON

Proper noun

Pinkerton (plural Pinkertons)

A Scottish and Northern Irish habitational surname for someone from a place of that name near Dunbar.

Noun

Pinkerton (plural Pinkertons)

(dated, countable) An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884).

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GROIN

(noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals


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