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Baker Street Irregulars

Baker Street Irregulars is the plural of Baker Street Irregular.

Meaning of Baker Street Irregular

Noun

Baker Street Irregular (plural Baker Street Irregulars)

  1. A casual assistant, especially in the context of detection or solving crime.
    • I'd be glad to hear anything you might dig up. You could be a kind of Baker Street Irregular yourself. But please understand, the way it stands now the Harkness death is classified as a suicide or accident.2005, Lloyd Davis, Campus Delicti: A Dan Quarrier Mystery
  2. A fan of Sherlock Holmes stories.
    • This hope reflected Starrett's tongue-in-cheek faith as a Baker Street Irregular that Sherlock Holmes actually lived and that the stories about him were all factual, written by the faithful Doctor Watson from voluminous records.1952 December 29, Life, page 62

Questions about Baker Street Irregulars

What is Baker Street Irregulars the plural of?
Baker Street Irregulars is the plural of Baker Street Irregular.

Words near Baker Street Irregulars in the dictionary

  1. Baker day
  2. Baker days
  3. Baker Island
  4. Baker Street
  5. Baker Street Irregular
  6. Baker Street Irregulars
  7. baker's
  8. baker's ammonia
  9. baker's chocolate
  10. baker's chocolates
  11. Baker's cyst

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