Good Cop, Bad Cop

English

Proper noun

Good Cop, Bad Cop

1. Alternative form of good cop bad cop.
   • 1988, Careers and the MBA.:

     Or the two of you are playing ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ and you’re the Good Cop.

   • 2002, Anthony Asadullah Samad, Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man: Conflict and Compromise of Second-Generation Advocacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Kabili Press, →ISBN:

     We’d take turns playing “Good Cop, Bad Cop.”

   • 2008, Colin Harvey, Killers, Swimming Kangaroo Books, →ISBN, page 105:

     "Were they having an affair?" Bad Cop Pall asked. I'd played Good Cop, Bad Cop myself. "He's a good-looking guy. Wife was pregnant, we hear. Maybe she went off sex. Pretty colleague, isolated spot, working together all the time: Who'd blame them?"

   • 2014, Riley McLincha, The Runyaker’s Journey, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 179:

     Once again atop the high bank and by the prison perimeter, we soon were surrounded by four correction officers. Two began playing “Good Cop, Bad Cop.” Bad Cop wanted my camera.

   • 2018, Wesley Allan Dueck, The Storyteller's Son: A Memoir of Loss and Hope in the Storm, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 63:

     The two officers played “Good Cop, Bad Cop” just like on television. The nice one asked if I had any other activities to confess.

   • 2019, Iori Miyazawa, Otherside Picnic: Volume 1, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:

     “The Time-space Man was trying to make you stay away from the other world, but these middle-aged women came here on their own. Isn’t that contradictory? Are they playing Good Cop, Bad Cop to shake us up?”