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A derogatory slang in Portugal used for police officers and law enforcement in general. [8] Booze Bus Australian slang term referring to a police roadside random breath testing station, which are often specialized buses. [citation needed] Boy Dem / Boydem / Bwoy Dem Jamaican-origin slang term, also popular in the UK and Toronto. [9] The Boys
The following is a list of slang terms used to refer to federal agents, which are used by the public, members of organized crime, anti-establishment political groups or individuals, and occasionally other federal employees. This list does not encompass slang terms used to refer to local police departments, nor those that denote the agencies ...
Pages in category "Law enforcement-related lists" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... List of police-related slang terms; P.
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Five-O, an American slang term for law enforcement; Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), an American television police drama airing from 1968 to 1980 Hawaii Five-O, a 1969 album by The Ventures; Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), a re-imagining of the 1968 series premiering in 2010; Five-O, a 1985 Hank Williams, Jr. album
grass [26] or supergrass [27] – rhyming slang for "grasshopper", meaning "copper" or "shopper", [28] having additional associations with the popular song Whispering Grass and the phrase "snake in the grass". [29] narc – a member of a specialist anti-narcotic law enforcement agency or police intelligence force. [30]
While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
G-man, short for "Government Man", slang for federal law enforcement agents G-Men, a reference to a detectives of the Dublin Metropolitan Police force's G Division in early 20th-century Ireland People