copwise
English
Alternative forms
- cop wise, cop-wise
Etymology
From cop + wise.
Adjective
copwise (comparative more copwise, superlative most copwise)
- Possessing the knowledge and expertise typical of police officers; having police smarts
- 2014, James Ellroy, Perfidia:
- They were copwise. Hiltz knew him from the Deutsches Haus. Smith provoked discord routinely. They were copwise.
- 2015, Billy Van, Dead of Night:
- Steve went against his copwise instincts and entered the building anyway.
- 2016, Forrest Stuart, Down, Out, and Under Arrest
- Like streetwise residents in underpoliced neighborhoods, copwise individuals learn to reinterpret the mundane scenarios, spaces, and people found in the neighborhood.
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Anagrams
- cow pies, cowpies