Bobby

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  • noun. A police officer.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A policeman: a nickname first given to the members of the police force established under Sir Robert Peel's act (passed in 1829) for improving the police in and near London.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A nickname for a British policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See peeler.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A police officer.
  • noun. A railway signaller.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an informal term for a British policeman
    • Word Usage
    "NEWTON (voice-over): This is what we call the bobby cam, from the drunken brawl that's broken up to all the arrests that follow."
    cross-reference
    peeler  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    officer  police officer  policeman  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bobbi  Bobbie  Hobby  Rabi  Robbie  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Courtney  DSS  MVP  Mohawk  belaying  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Dogberry  John Law  bluebottle  bluecoat  bull  
    variant
    peeler  
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