Usually means: British slang for the police.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word Old Bill:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. old bill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Old Bill, the Old Bill: Collins English Dictionary
  3. the old Bill, the old bill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. Old Bill: Wiktionary
  5. Old Bill (cartoon character), Old Bill (comics), Old bill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Old Bill: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Old Bill: Legal dictionary
  2. Old Bill: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old Bill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old Bill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Old Bill, the Old Bill: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. old bill, old bill, Old Bill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. (the) old bill: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Old Bill: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Old Bill)

noun:  (British, slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
noun:  (British slang, frequently with the) The police force.
noun:  (British slang, dated) A soldier, especially one who resembles the cartoon character of the same name created by Bruce Bairnsfather in 1914.

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