| 单词 | fly cop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfly cop fly cop n. slang (see quots. 1859, 1962); (U.S.) a detective, a plain-clothes policeman. ΚΠ 1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 34 Fly-cop, sharp officer;..an officer that understands his business. 1872 Chicago Tribune 27 Dec. 8/3 Blacklegs, gamblers, ‘fly cops’, and sports. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 376/1 Fly-cop (thieves'), a sharp policeman. 1893 E. M. Whittemore Delia 62 I didn't know whether the men were ‘Fly cops’ or something else. 1900 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ Powers that Prey 170 He was a copper, and we fly cops have got to send some bloke to the chair for blastin' him. a1906 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 227 It was purely the still panic produced by the sound of the ax of the fly cop, Conscience, hammering at the gambling-house doors of the Heart. 1910 P. G. Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure xviii. 200 ‘A detective?’ ‘Dat's right. A fly cop.’ 1962 John o' London's 25 Jan. 82/2 A motorised police officer is.. a fly cop. < as lemmas |
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