pretty police

English

Etymology

From pretty (“effeminate”) +‎ police.

Noun

pretty police (uncountable)

  1. (UK, law enforcement, slang, historical) Male police officers disguised as gay men who instigated sexual encounters with gay men as an excuse to arrest them for soliciting sex. [1980s]
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