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Po-po, Popo, Popos, PoPo A derogatory street term for police. Originally from Southern California, where bicycle police, beginning in the 1980s, wore T-shirts marked 'PO', for 'police officer', in block letters .
Popo FC, a football club in Pakistan; Popocatépetl, an active volcano in Mexico, also called El Popo; Gen language, spoken in Togo; Phla language, spoken in Benin and Togo; Po-po or popo, slang for a police officer; Popo (Mexican beverage), an indigenous Mexican beverage, made with cocoa
A photo posted on the page of a police cruiser Saturday with "Po Po" on the side and a related message have gone viral with thousands of shares and likes.
First attested in English in the early 15th century, originally in a range of senses encompassing '(public) policy; state; public order', the word police comes from Middle French police ('public order, administration, government'), [10] in turn from Latin politia, [11] which is the romanization of the Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeia) 'citizenship, administration, civil polity'. [12]
Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others. The local ...
List of police-related slang terms From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
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In fact, Lindsay is flattered by the slang. “I personally find it an honor to be an ‘OPP’ if it’s for having clear expectations and holding students accountable to their responsibilities ...