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plain-clothed

plain-clothed is the alternative form of plainclothed.

Meaning of plainclothed

Adjective

plainclothed (not comparable)

  1. plainclothes; wearing ordinary clothes instead of a uniform in order to avoid detection.

Questions about plain-clothed

What is plain-clothed the alternative form of?
Plain-clothed is the alternative form of plainclothed.

Words near plain-clothed in the dictionary

  1. plain work
  2. plain wrapper
  3. plain wrappers
  4. plain-breasted hawk
  5. plain-breasted hawks
  6. plain-clothed
  7. plain-clothes
  8. plain-dealing
  9. plain-dealings
  10. plain-hearted
  11. plain-laid

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