Usually means: Game of chase, police, thieves.
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  1. cops and robbers: Merriam-Webster
  2. cops and robbers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cops and robbers: Wiktionary
  4. cops and robbers: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. cops and robbers: Dictionary.com
  6. Cops and Robbers (song), Cops and Robbers, Cops and robbers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Cops and Robbers: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cops and robbers)

noun:  (playground games) A game played by schoolchildren in which the "robbers" have to steal "gold" and return it to their "base" without being caught by the "cops" and taken to "jail". When in "jail", "prisoners" can be "freed" by other "robbers".

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