n
(sports) Alternative form of keeper (i.e. goalkeeper or wicketkeeper). [One who keeps (retains) something.]
n
Alternative form of izle [(dialectal) A spark, an ember, a hot ash or cinder.]
adj
(US, colloquial) Anti-police.
n
(slang) A police officer.
n
A man who wears a badge.
n
A male bagger (retail employee who bags customers' purchases).
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A man or boy employed to put clients' purchases (e.g. groceries) into bags at the checkout line of a store.
n
(slang, US, African-American English) A police car.
n
(lang, derogatory) Any large regional police service.
n
Alternative letter-case form of blackshirt [(historical, chiefly in the plural) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party.]
n
(slang) A member of law enforcement.
n
(military) United Nations peacekeeper
n
Someone who wears such a hat; a Scotsman, especially a Scottish soldier.
n
(UK, finance, historical) An unauthorized clerk in the stock exchange.
n
(UK, air force slang, dated) A member of the air force.
n
A lie told by a police officer in order to get someone to comply with his or her wishes, thereby avoiding the use of force.
n
Alternative form of blue shirt [An Alaska State Trooper.]
n
(military, informal) A member of military personnel at an air base.
n
(historical) A Yankee; a Union soldier during the American civil war.
n
(UK, Australia, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A police officer.
n
(US historical) A soldier or officer in the Union army during the American Civil War
n
(chiefly UK, Ireland, informal, law enforcement) The flashing blue lights and (originally) two-tone siren of a police vehicle.
n
(US, slang, historical) One who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty.
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(colloquial, historical) A member of an early police force founded in 1742 in London, England.
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(UK, air force slang, dated) A member of the air force.
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Alternative form of Brownshirt [(historical) A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.]
n
Alternative letter-case form of Brownshirt [(historical) A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.]
n
(finance) A bucket shop operator.
n
(US, military, historical) An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War.
n
(Korean units of measure) A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.
n
(US slang) A police badge.
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(historical, by extension) In Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Puerto Rico, about 194 acres; in the southwestern United States, about 108 acres.
n
A type of monumental public Christian cross, sometimes encased in an open shrine.
n
Alternative spelling of shanty (“song”) [A roughly-built hut or cabin.]
n
(UK) Any of the retired British army officers now resident in Royal Hospital Chelsea, noted for their ceremonial scarlet coats and tricorne hats.
n
(uncountable, historical) The color of the field uniform of the German Army from late 1907 until 1945.
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Alternative spelling of foot soldier [(military) A soldier who fights on foot; an infantryman]
n
Alternative spelling of greyback [(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).]
n
(Canada, slang) Bylaw officer.
n
The green uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
n
(UK, military, historical, chiefly in the plural) A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971.
n
(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
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(US, slang) The flashing lights on top of a police car.
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(historical) A mercenary soldier, especially a German one who fought with the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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(historical, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of hoppo, especially in reference to the imperial board or the chief customs officer of a port. [(historical, archaic, sometimes capitalized) The imperial Chinese board of revenue, especially its branch in Guangzhou during the Qing Dynasty.]
adv
(of sitting) Cross-legged.
n
(slang) A police record.
n
(US, slang) A plainclothes narcotics officer.
n
(CB radio, slang) A police officer with a radar gun.
n
(informal) A soldier of the light infantry.
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A hero of westerns who wore a mask.
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(Tyneside, Cumberland, dialect) A lane.
n
(informal, historical) A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback.
n
(historical, nautical, in Ancient Rome) The recreation of a sea battle staged for entertainment.
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(historical) A girl or young woman who is employed doing sewing and simple embroidery.
adj
(usually of a police officer) Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.
n
Alternative spelling of plainclothesman [A police officer (especially a detective) who wears civilian clothes when on duty.]
n
A police officer (especially a detective) who wears civilian clothes when on duty.
n
(dated, slang) A purse; hence money.
n
(UK, military, slang, historical) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.
n
(UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
n
(obsolete) A post-boy, a messenger boy, a swift letter carrier.
n
Alternative spelling of redcoat [(historical) A British soldier.]
n
(UK, military, slang) A senior army officer.
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Alternative form of Red Shirt (“member of the UDD”) [A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy), supporters of Prime Minister Shinawatra, (and subsequently Abhisit Vejajiva) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.]
n
(historical) A British soldier.
n
Alternative form of Red Shirt [A member of the UDD (National United Front for Democracy), supporters of Prime Minister Shinawatra, (and subsequently Abhisit Vejajiva) in the conflict in Thailand after the 2006 coup d'etat.]
n
A male boxer or prizefighter.
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A masterless samurai (who often becomes a mercenary to make ends meet).
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(military, slang, US) An officer responsible for radar.
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(historical) A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 until 1971.
n
(UK) A unit of police officers equipped with shields to tackle a riot.
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A police officer assigned to keep tabs on other members of the police.
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A policeman, especially a highway patrol officer.
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(RAF slang) A Royal Air Force police officer.
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A woman who steers a craft.
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(historical) A unit of Russian guardsmen from the 16th to the early 18th centuries, armed with a firearm.
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(India, historical) Synonym of dak (“post system by means of relays of horses carrying mail and passengers”)
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(US, historical) Synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”)
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(railways, historical, slang) The train between Euston and Holyhead, in connection with the Kingstown mailboats.
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Alternative form of wooden-top [(Britain, informal, idiomatic) A uniformed police officer.]
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Alternative form of yellow shirt [A sailor on an aircraft carrier responsible for directing aircraft.]
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(historical) A member of the South African Republic Police
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