| 单词 | cops and robbers |
| 释义 | > as lemmascops and robbers A policeman. cops and robbers (originally U.S.): a children's game in which ‘police’ hunt ‘robbers’; also (? nonce-use) cops and thieves and transferred. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > game of make-believe > specific Indian1834 mothers and fathers1903 Cowboys and Indians1916 cops and robbers1938 1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 124 (Farmer) Oh! where will be..all the cops and beaks so knowin' A hundred stretches hence? 1867 F. H. Ludlow Brace of Boys 262 What's a cop?.. That's what the boys call a policeman. 1884 Breadwinners 212 ‘Who's afraid of half-a-dozen cops’, said a burly ruffian. 1903 Independent (U.S.) 15 Jan. 146/1 When I was a youngster one of my favorite games was what we children called ‘Cops and Thieves’. 1938 ‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts (1939) xi. 119 They're going down to the Horseshoe Club to play cops and robbers with Alessandro. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xx. 225 The sensation of participating in an exciting cops-and-robbers game. 1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music ii. 35 The villains are rounded up and hustled into a nearby police station, accompanied by a light musical parody in the ‘cops and robbers’ style of the silent film. 1959 J. O'Donovan Visited xxxi. 201 He..was momentarily ashamed of himself, as if he had been caught playing cops and robbers. < as lemmas |
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