beat cop

English

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Noun

beat cop (plural beat cops)

  1. (US, slang) A police officer who patrols the streets on foot (walks the beat).
    • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
      Others understand community policing as a style of community integration in which the beat cop specifically withholds enforcement as a way to build community contacts.

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