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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sleuth /sluːθ/ informal

▶noun a detective. ▶verb (often as noun sleuthing) carry out a search or investigation in the manner of a detective.

– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘track’, in sleuth-hound): from ON slóth; cf. slot2.

'sleuth' also found in these Oxford entries:

sleuth-hound - slot

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