Pinkerton

//ˈpɪŋkətən//

"Pinkerton" in a Sentence (2 examples)

My heart wells up in admiration of the man, as I think of his participation in the memorable struggle of Homestead. He fought the Pinkertons, the myrmidons of Capital.

He joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.