Sherlock definition
A detective.
noun
An earlier Macintosh utility starting with Version 8.5 of the operating system that provided a common facility for searching the local hard disk, the local network and the Internet. Sherlock was replaced with Spotlight in Mac OS X Tiger.
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Origin of sherlock
- After Sherlock Holmes, detective in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition