English
Noun
Sense: an officer in a law enforcement agency
Synonyms
- 5-O (US, slang)
- alphabet (US, slang)
- barney (US, slang)
- beatsman (archaic, rare)
- bizzie (UK, slang)
- bluebottle (slang)
- bluecoat (dated)
- blue heeler (Australia, slang)
- blue meanie (derogatory, slang)
- bobby (UK, slang)
- (slang, humorous, pejorative, obsolete)
- bogey (UK, slang)
- boy in blue (US)
- bull (US, slang)
- bullyman (Australia, derogatory, slang)
- buttons (slang)
- centenier (Jersey)
- charpering omi (UK, Polari)
- chazzer (slang)
- cobbler (slang)
- cop (slang)
- copper (slang)
- (UK, slang)
- cracker (US, derogatory, slang)
- crusher (slang)
- crowns (slang, US, refering to crown victoria patrol cars)
- dibble (UK, slang)
- fed [⇒ thesaurus]
- filth (UK, derogatory, slang)
- finest (informal, chiefly plural)
- finger [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete, US, slang)
- five-o
- flatfoot (colloquial, archaic, pejorative)
- flatty (archaic, US, slang)
- fuzz
- garda (Ireland)
- gendarme (France)
- glowie (US, slang)
- guardian of the peace (Ireland, informal)
- harman (obsolete, thieves' cant)
- harman-beck (obsolete, thieves' cant)
- jack (Australia, UK, slang)
- jackboot (Australia, UK, slang)
- jake (US, MLE, slang)
- (US)
- Johnny Hopper (UK, Cockney rhyming slang)
- lawman
- mee-maw (UK, slang)
- monarch (Aboriginal English)
- Mr Plod (UK, Australia, slang)
- mutton shunter (UK, archaic, slang)
- (obsolete)
- oinker (derogatory, slang)
- Officer Friendly (colloquial)
- Old Bill (UK, slang)
- PC Plod (UK, informal)
- pig [⇒ thesaurus] (derogatory, slang)
- piggy (UK, derogatory, slang)
- peeler (UK, slang)
- plod (UK, slang)
- [⇒ thesaurus]
- police officer
- policeman
- policeperson
- polis (UK)
- po-po
- raw lobster (obsolete, slang)
- roller (slang)
- rozzer (UK, slang)
- scufter (UK, slang, dated)
- slop (UK, back slang)
- swine (derogatory, slang)
- statie (new england US, slang, a state trooper)
- twelve (US, slang)
- tyre biter (derogatory, slang)
- unboiled lobster (obsolete, slang)
- walloper (Australia, slang)
- wooden-top (UK, idiomatic)
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