plain clothesnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˌpleɪn ˈkləʊðz/us/ˌpleɪn ˈkloʊðz/ordinary clothes when worn by police when they are working:
There were police in plain clothes in the crowd.
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The police generally
- baton
- baton charge
- billy club
- booze bus
- CID
- constabulary
- escort
- fuzz
- met
- patrol car
- police
- police department
- police force
- police state
- the long arm of the law idiom
- the Metropolitan Police
- the RCMP
- the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- traffic cops
- warrant
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plain-clothes
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˌpleɪnˈkləʊðz/us/-ˈkloʊðz/
plain-clothes police officers/detectives