rozzer
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 24
- Words With Friends
- 24
- Letters
- 6
Definition of rozzer
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Ireland, UK, dated, slang)A police officer.
“"Another wrong un," says the carman. "Hi, Mr. Graham!"—and up walks a rozzer and buckles me tight.”
“If the rozzers was to see him in bona clobber they'd take him for a gun.”
“‘I was never frightened of any job yet,’ he said, ‘and I'd do this job to-night if the house was full of rozzers,’ Hill pretended that he wasn't particular whether the thing came off or not that night, but all the while he kept egging Fred on to do it.”
“Jed Mercurio’s corrupt cop hit remains one of the best shows on TV, but surely every rozzer in the Midlands knows who Kate Fleming is by now?”
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Etymology
Late 19th century UK. Etymology unknown. Possibly a play on the given name of Sir Robert Peel, founder of the Metropolitan Police Service. Compare peeler, bobby.
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