Sherlock /ˈʃɜɹ.lɒk/ verb3 •(informal) To deduce."Anybody could have Sherlocked at a glance," sniffed young Kennilworth, "that it had been packed by a crazy person!" — 1921 •(informal) To search.That afternoon when the boys were in the field Mr. Frickstad sherlocked around in the tents and under the cots looking for a missing rocking-chair. — 1908 •(slang) To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app.The thing software developers fear most is being "sherlocked". — 2012 formsSherlocked · Sherlocking · sherlocking · Sherlocks · sherlocks