| 单词 | police boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolice boy police boy n. now historical and offensive a native-born male employed by the police force of a colonial or white-dominated administration as an assistant, security officer, or (esp. Australian) tracker. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > officials attached to police force searcher1834 police boy1914 traffic warden1928 police dispatcher1935 1914 G. A. Tandy in C. Ambler & J. Crush Liquor & Labor in S. Afr. (1992) vi. 172 In many cases police boys are in collusion with the brewers. 1938 X. Herbert Capricornia 372 A sneakin' coot of a police-boy stationed at the Compound got to hear of it and told the jonnops. 1994 C. Summers Civilization to Segregation vi. 136 Some workers—such as government messengers, clerks, ‘police boys’, or relatively skilled workers—were not temporary migrants. < as lemmas |
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