Baker Street Irregular
nounEtymology
From the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, in which they were a group of street boys who assisted Holmes (who lived on Baker Street, London) with his investigations.
Definitions
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.
- 'And I don't understand your position at all. It seems quite irregular.' 'So it is, madam. I may be called a Baker Street Irregular. […]'
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.
- On this night, in 1934 New York, a few enthusiasts met to celebrate the birthday of the man they most respected, admired and loved. The Baker Street Irregulars were officially born.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Baker Street Irregular. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA