Columboed

Columboed: adjective. Someone who has been outsmarted by a clever detective using the power of deduction. The word can also refer to someone whose identity is cleverly concealed and sheer existence disputed. Obviously, the term comes from the TV series Columbo, in particular the only spin-off episode that featured Columbo´s basset hound as the central figure and mystery solver, sniffing its way to the elites of the Palau opiate mafia. At the end of the episode, when the main criminal is convicted of triple murder by the clever dog, the policeman that transports him to prison comments that the dog´s master is not the only being able to leave people Columboed.