plainclothes in English

noun
1
ordinary clothes rather than uniform, especially when worn as a disguise by police officers.
a detective in plain clothes
adjective
1
(especially of a police officer) wearing ordinary clothes instead of a uniform.
plainclothes troopers

Use "plainclothes" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "plainclothes" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "plainclothes", or refer to the context using the word "plainclothes" in the English Dictionary.

1. 6 A plainclothes man was examining the french windows.

2. Vietnamese dissidents say that violence or harassment by plainclothes police thugs is the new norm.

3. Evans, Mercer County law journal , Volume 10, A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly Ajarred door

4. Athleisure is the Bering Land Bridge that connected activewear and plainclothes in the late '90s

5. Some public areas are under the constant surveillance of TV cameras and plainclothes police officers.

6. In the United Kingdom and many former British colonies, Criminal Investigation Department (Cid) is the generic name for the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong

7. The man refuses, instead opting to film the license plates of the police vehicles in the area as a uniformed officer walks out to meet the plainclothes, man-Bunned culprit.

8. On 30 January 1976, while rehearsing August Strindberg's The Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, he was arrested by two plainclothes police officers and charged with income tax evasion.