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English
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]policeman (plural policemen)
- A male police officer, sometimes used for any police officer regardless of gender.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.
- (entomology) Any skipper of the genus Coeliades.
- (ice hockey) Synonym of enforcer
- 2002, P. J. Harari, Dave Ominsky, Ice Hockey Made Simple: A Spectator's Guide, page 26:
- A team may have a policeman or enforcer.
Synonyms
[edit]- (member of a police force): See Thesaurus:police officer
- (glass rod with rubber cap): rubber policeman
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → French: policeman
- → Maori: pirihimana
- → Welsh: plismon
Translations
[edit]member of a police force — see police officer
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]policeman m (plural policemans)
- policeman (in Anglophone countries)
- 1968, Serge Gainsbourg (lyrics and music), “Bonnie and Clyde”, in Initials B.B., performed by Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot:
- Chaque fois qu’un policeman se fait buter […]
- Every time a policeman gets done in […]
Further reading
[edit]- “policeman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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