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spied him getting into a yellow convertible.
spying n. espionage, undercover work, secret service; detection,
intelligence, surveillance: Virtually every government engages
in spying.
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squad n. unit, team, band, company, crew, force, troop, cadre, gang,
section, group, squadron, platoon, party: They decided to call
in the drugs squad. Has the work squad returned to base yet?
square adj. 1 equilateral, quadrangular, rectangular, right-angled,
quadrilateral, four-sided, cubic, cubed, six-sided, boxy: She
bought a work of art consisting of three square pieces of red
plastic on a mauve ground. He keeps trying to put square pegs
into round holes. 2 equal, on a par, even, on equal terms,
settled, balanced: With this payment, our accounts are now all
square. 3 even, true, exact, straight, accurate, precise,
correct: Make sure that the corners are perfectly square. 4
honourable, upright, honest, straightforward, fair (and square),
decent, ethical, open, (open and) above-board, right, (right
and) proper, clean, just, equitable, Colloq on the level, on the
up and up: I have never had anything but square dealings with
Fred Latham. 5 healthful, healthy, nutritious, substantial,
solid, full, generous, satisfying, filling, unstinting: You
could always count on three square meals a day when staying at
Auntie Maisie's. 6 na‹ve, innocent; bourgeois, conservative,
conventional, unsophisticated, provincial, old-fashioned,
conformist, strait-laced, unimaginative, predictable, Colloq
antediluvian, uptight, out of it, not with it, not in the know,
not hip or hep, unhip, stuffy, behind the times, straight, US
L-7: We were at the age when anyone over 25 was considered
square.
--n. 7 rectilinear figure, rectangle; cube, block: He took a
square of wood and quickly carved it into the shape of a duck. 8
plaza, piazza, place, park, (village) green, market-place,
market (square), agora, quadrangle: We like to sit on the
benches in the square outside my house and chat with the
neighbours. 9 bourgeois, conservative, conformist,