'tec

參見：tec、Tec 和 TEC

英語

詞源

detective 的截斷形式。

名詞

'tec (複數 'tecs)

1. (俚語) 偵探
   • 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.

異序詞

• CET, CTE, ECT, ETC, TCE, etc, etc., tce, 'Tec