detectived

Verb

detective (third-person singular simple present detectives, present participle detectiving, simple past and past participle detectived)

1. (informal, intransitive, uncommon) To be or act as or like a detective.
   • The terminal server manager has to go detectiving around every so often collecting up these ``idle osf users and manually log out their ports on the terminal server.1995 November 1, System Janitor, “LAT sessions hang...”, in comp.unix.osf.osf1 (Usenet)
2. (informal, transitive, uncommon) To investigate or find information about (someone or something) as or like a detective.
   • But, what is a jew^([sic]) doing giving a child the protection of a Catholic umbella during WWII? And that the country wasn't mentioned, is curious, or that nationality. Polish Jew? German Jew? etc. for this information has merit for detectiving the papers.1998 January 4, jeanne khan, quoting Mr. G., “sources for poems/disc. of G and J/your”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet)

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