Thesaurus:police
THESAURUS | police |
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Synonyms
- 5-O
- Babylon (Jamaica, UK)
- bacon
- Big Blue Machine
- boydem (UK)
- constabulary
- dibble (UK)
- donut patrol (US)
- ducks and geese (UK, Cockney rhyming slang)
- esclop (UK, back slang)
- feds (UK only)
- filth
- fuzz
- gendarmerie
- heat
- monarch (Australia)
- Old Bill (UK)
- piglice
- plod (UK)
- po-po (US)
- police
- police department
- police force
- police service
- polis (UK)
- thin blue line (colloquial)
- any plural of police officer
Hyponyms
- LAPD
- Met
- NYPD
- RCMP
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Sûreté
- —
- CID
- CSI
- flying squad
- SOCO
- Special Branch
- SWAT
Meronyms
- police officer [WS]
- police vehicle [WS]
- —
- charpering carsey (UK, Polari)
- cop shop (UK & Commonwealth, slang)
- nick (UK, slang)
- police station
- precinct (US)
Metonyms
- authority
- law [WS]
- power [WS]
Various
- beat
- manor (UK, slang)
- patch (UK, slang)
- precinct (US)
See also
- long arm of the law
Further reading
- “965. jurisdiction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “police” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.