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| Bloody Sunday |
March 7, 1965, the day on which American civil rights activists, led by John Lewis and others, marched onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and were beaten and tear-gassed by waiting police officers and deputies on the other side. |
| bluecoat |
one who wears a blue coat or uniform, esp. a police officer or a Union soldier in the U.S. Civil War. |
| bobby |
(chiefly British; old-fashioned; informal) a police officer, esp. one who patrols on foot. |
| captain |
a police officer holding a rank above lieutenant. [1/8 definitions] |
| cop2 |
(informal) a police officer. |
| crossing guard |
a school official, police officer, or volunteer who directs traffic and helps children to cross the streets around a school. |
| detective |
a person, often a police officer, who conducts investigations. |
| false arrest |
the illegal restraint or detention of a person by another who claims to have legal authority, usu. a police officer. |
| gendarme |
a police officer, esp. in France. [1/2 definitions] |
| lieutenant |
in the United States, a police officer of high responsibility whose rank is above a sergeant and below a captain. [1/5 definitions] |
| meter maid |
a woman, usu. a police officer, whose job is to write tickets for parking violations. |
| metonymy |
a figure of speech in which the name of one thing is used in place of something else with which it is associated, such as "the grape" for wine, "laurels" for fame, or "the law" for a police officer. |
| nightstick |
a club carried by a police officer; billy. |
| patrolman |
a male police officer or guard assigned to patrol a particular route or area. |
| patrolwoman |
a female police officer or guard assigned to patrol a particular route or area. |
| police car |
a car used by police officers and equipped with a radiotelephone; patrol car; squad car. |
| search warrant |
a legal document authorizing a police officer to search a specified person, premise, or dwelling. |
| sergeant |
a police officer who holds the rank of sergeant. [1/4 definitions] |
| speed trap |
a stretch of road where police officers and radar devices are concealed in order to catch speeders. |
| stakeout |
an instance or the practice of surveillance of a place, usu. by police officers, in order to prevent a crime, apprehend a wanted person, or the like. |
| stake out |
to put (a person or place) under surveillance, esp. by police officers. [2 definitions] |
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