flicn.
/flɪk/ A French policeman.
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1899 E. Dowson Let. 13 June (1967) 413 The ‘flics’ are a joy for ever. Each one has a different face & each one is inevitably and transparently a policeman in plain clothes.
1918 C. B. Jordan tr. V. B. Ibáñez Four Horsemen of Apocalypse ii. i. 168 He hated the flics, the Paris police.
1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth ii. i. 60 On the platform..sat a row of flics, rifles between knees.
1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets iii. 51 Just as I was about to strike him on the mazzard, this flic intervened, and his was the mazzard I struck.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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