P.I. n.
a Private I, i.e. eye.
Long Good-Bye 10: ‘Oh ho,’ he said. ‘A P.I. picking up a client.’. | ||
Tourist Season (1987) 30: Keyes had been a solid reporter and it was a damn shame he’d given it up to become a P.I. Joe Allen wasn’t crazy about private investigators. | ||
Shaved Fish 154: ‘Who are you?’ he said finally. [...] ‘I’m a PI.’. | ||
Guardian G2 10 Nov. 8: The cops were always dragging the PI into the cop shop. | ||
Destination: Morgue! (2004) 366: I figured you was a PI, then I saw your badge. | ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in||
Thrill City [ebook] I wanted to introduce a female PI in my next Zack book. | ||
Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘There’s gotta be two hundred PIs in Boston’. | ||
Joey Piss Pot 100: ‘[T]he mob often uses PIs, private investigators, to watch their own people, make sure they aren’t [...] CI’s, criminal informants’. |