Detective and Scout

Detective

Detective noun - A person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons.

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Scout and detective are semantically related in investigator of crime topic. In some cases you can use "Scout" instead a noun "Detective".

Nearby Words: detect, detection, detecting, detector, detectivity

Scout noun - A member of the human race.

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Detective and scout are semantically related in investigating topic. Sometimes you can use "Detective" instead a noun "Scout".

Nearby Words: scouted, scouting

human	human detective	human scout
old	old detective	old scout
good	good detective	good scout
female	female detective	female scout
Other adjectives: best, certain, original, lead, single, simple, little, young, famous, experienced, new, skilled, former, last, competent, teenage, eponymous.

Later in the game, the PC gets to do play detective/lawyer again, but this time the trope is completely inverted: though the victim is a Dark Jedi — and as such, no girl scout — her murderer is even worse.

Source: Asshole Victim / Video Games
The Last Boy Scout, and action film featuring Bruce Willis as a private detective who teams up with a disgraced NFL quarterback (Damon Wayans) to take down the corrupt owner of the team, climaxing with a shootout at a football game.

Source: Useful Notes / American Football

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