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plain clothes
noun
clothing other than one's uniform, especially civilian clothes worn on duty by a police officer.
Also, plain·clothes.
Origin:
1815–25
1815–25
Related forms
plain-clothes, adjective
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| plain clothes | |
| —pl n | |
| a. ordinary clothes, as distinguished from uniform, as worn by a police detective on duty | |
| b. (as modifier): a plain-clothes policeman | |
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plain clothes
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Word Origin & History
plain clothes
"ordinary dress" (as opposed to military uniform), 1822; of police detectives, it is attested from 1842. Also plainclothes.
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Example sentences
The team wears plain clothes and uses an unmarked car.
Dere was a whole army of plain clothes bulls around.
Two officers were sent out each night to patrol the streets in plain clothes.
These directed patrols will include plain clothes officers on foot in and around areas of student housing.
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