Bulkies
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See also: bulkies
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from their bulky figures.
Noun
[edit]Bulkies pl (plural only)
- (Ireland, slang, obsolete) The police.
- 1891, Irish Builder and Engineer, volume 33, page 122:
- […] the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the "Bulkies."
- 2023, Sean Farrell, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, page 253:
- In his study of the Belfast Town Police (nicknamed "the Bulkies"), Brian Griffin has argued that the force's sectarian reputation was more a matter of appearance […] than behavior.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary