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A child member of the St John Ambulance medical volunteering organisation.
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An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force.
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A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
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(military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
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(US, pejorative slang) A police officer, usually one perceived as inferior or overzealous.
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(military) A servant or valet to a military officer.
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(law enforcement) bodycam
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(US, slang) A police officer who patrols the streets on foot (walks the beat)
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(Britain, slang) A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill"
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An outlaw gunslinger in the Wild West
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(US, dated) A soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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(criminology) Someone with criminal intentions who impersonates a police officer on the road using a vehicle that has been modified to appear to be a patrol car.
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(British, Ireland, slang) A police officer.
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British Transport Police
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(slang, UK, Liverpudlian, derogatory) A police officer.
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(US, slang) A police officer assigned to a university campus.
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A member of the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, the "Carabineros de Chile".
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A group of convicts chained together to work outside the confines of a prison.
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Alternative form of chain-ganger [Someone who has been forced to work in a chain gang, usually a convict.]
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An officer of the California Highway Patrol
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An undercover police officer who has not done a particular task before.
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(usually in the plural, slang) A police officer.
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(intransitive, dated) To act as a constable or policeman.
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(US, colloquial) disrespect shown to a police officer
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(informal) A police officer or prison guard.
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(informal) A police car.
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Alternative form of cop-killer [A person who deliberately kills an on-duty police officer.]
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A person who deliberately kills an on-duty police officer.
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(slang) Befitting or resembling a police officer; coplike.
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(slang) A body camera worn by a police officer.
adj
(slang) Resembling a cop; policelike.
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(slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
adj
(slang) Resembling or characteristic of a police officer.
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(informal) Like or resembling a cop (police officer).
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(slang) A mustache in the style commonly worn (or perceived as such) by a police officer.
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(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
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A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above).
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(slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
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(informal) A member of a cyberpolice force.
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An early-morning visit by police or law enforcement with the intention of taking the suspects by surprise.
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(slang, Britain, originally Manchester, uncountable) Preceded by the: the police.
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(figuratively) A police officer who is reckless, disregards practices and policies, or who practices vigilantism, or has a questionable use of force and officer involved shooting incidents.
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Alternative form of esclop [(archaic, costermongers) The police.]
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(UK, slang) A police station.
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(US, slang) Among policemen, "time off from work."
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(UK, derogatory, slang) The police.
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(informal, slang) A French policeman.
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A law enforcement officer who specializes in disrupting organized crime.
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Alternative form of gole (“troops”) [(British India) The main body of an army in array; a clustered body of troops; an irregular squadron of horsemen.]
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(Canada, slang) An officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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(historical) A soldier of the original imperial guard that was created by Napoleon I in 1804 and that made the final French charge at Waterloo.
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(US, slang) A game warden responsible for protecting fish.
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(slang, Canada, US) A detective.
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(UK, slang) A special constable.
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A police van with surveillance equipment, used to monitor troublemakers at events such as sports matches.
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(law enforcement slang) A police officer who writes many tickets.
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(slang) A police officer, a cop (on foot, rather than in a patrol car).
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(US, slang) A generic police officer.
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(military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
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(informal) A bungling, incompetent policeman.
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Alternative form of Keystone Cop [(informal) A bungling, incompetent policeman.]
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(Philippines, derogatory, informal) a police officer involved in kotong (bribery and extortion); a corrupt police officer
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Alternative form of lansquenet [(countable, historical) Any of a class of German mercenaries of the 15th and 16th centuries, most of whom were pikemen and foot soldiers.]
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(informal) A security guard employed to provide security at a shopping mall.
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A member of one of the sports teams with a mascot called Maverick.
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(Philippines) a street sweeper
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(historical) Any of a band of raiders or bandits who marauded the Scottish borders in the 17th century
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(informal) A policeman driving a motorcycle.
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(archaic, costermongers) A policeman.
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(UK, World War II) To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
adj
(Britain, slang) Not very good; unimpressive.
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(slang) police observation
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(slang) police observation
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(Britain, slang, law enforcement) A police officer
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Alternative form of oware [(games) A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.]
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(bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
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(Britain, informal, derogatory) A policeman (implying that he is dull and slow).
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(rare) A police officer (especially a detective) of any gender who wears civilian clothes when on duty.
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A female police officer (especially a detective) who wears civilian clothes when on duty.
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(UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
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(countable, derogatory, Britain, law enforcement slang) A female police constable.
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(usually plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
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(US) A register, maintained by the desk sergeant, of people arrested or brought in for questioning to a police station; (UK) charge sheet.
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(US, law enforcement, dated) A person who ranks highest on the federal government's prioritized list of wanted criminal fugitives.
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(chiefly law enforcement) An instance of a vehicle being pulled over.
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(military) A special forces operative; a commando.
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(countable, military) A common soldier.
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A raid (especially violent) carried out by the police or military, originally and chiefly carried out by the French in Algeria. and, prior to that, by the Milice (Vichy Government counter-terror police) in 1943-44.
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(Britain) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
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(colloquial, derogatory) A private security guard, usually one regarded as inferior to and less skilled than a true law enforcement officer.
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A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
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(US, historical) A policeman who acts as inspector.
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(law enforcement) The similar police activity of gathering together suspects.
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Alternative form of silent policeman [(Australia, informal) A small traffic bollard in the middle of an intersection.]
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(US, informal, law enforcement) A selection of six photographs, including one of a suspect, used for identification by a witness.
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(US, New York, informal) A police officer's report detailing a crime reported by a civilian.
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(Britain and Caribbean English, idiomatic) A speed bump.
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(uncommon, costermongers) A policeman.
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(idiomatic) A book that has had some of its interior removed for the purpose of storing small items.
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A group of police officers who rush forward in formation so as to apprehend an individual from a crowd.
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(chiefly US, Ireland) A police car.
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(Philippines) Someone advocating conflict and radical action, while themselves living in relative peace and luxury.
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(law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
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(informal) A highly skilled and dedicated member of the police.
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(US, slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) The Flying Squad, a branch of the London police service.
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(informal, television) A police officer (especially a detective) as portrayed on television.
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(Philippines, slang, derogatory) corrupt politician
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A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
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The personification of war, often depicted in armor and riding a red horse.
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Alternative form of oware [(games) A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.]
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(Britain, informal, idiomatic) A uniformed police officer.
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(US, slang) A criminal record
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Any daring and mysterious avenger.
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(military, historical, by extension) One of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves in French service, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War (1861–65).
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