| 单词 | highway patrolman |
| 释义 | > as lemmashighway patrolman highway patrolman n. U.S. (a) a worker who maintains the condition of roads as part of the highway patrol (highway patrol n. (a)) (now rare); (b) a police officer belonging to the highway patrol (highway patrol n. (b)). ΚΠ 1911 Automobile 28 Sept. 519 (caption) One of New York's highway patrolmen working to keep his section in good condition. 1915 Elyria (Ohio) Evening Telegram 6 Nov. 6/2 Under the law it becomes the duty of the highway commissioner, county commissioners, the county highway superintendent..and highway patrolmen to prosecute violations of the law. 1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) iii. iv. 174 He was a lean, tough, sinewy, head-cracking, doper-busting, macho highway patrolman. 2006 R. D. White Kingfish i. 15 Highway patrolmen clocked him doing forty-eight miles per hour in a thirty-mile zone. < as lemmas |
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