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bluecoat

noun

Definition of bluecoat

as in officer

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Noun

Responding officers heard screams coming from inside the home and ran into the basement.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
The school resource officer coordinated a police response and administrators initiated a lockdown.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of officer

Noun

You’ll be attacked in the street for that, the policeman appeared to be telling him.

— Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
In 2022, an ex-policeman armed with a gun and knife stormed into a nursery in the country's north and murdered 24 children and 12 adults in one of Thailand's deadliest massacres.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of policeman

Noun

Jenna Ziviani, a constable at the police station, helped deliver Lyla while receiving guidance from an ambulance officer on the phone.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
Thompson alerted a town administrator and special constable named Sherise Fountain, who went to investigate.

— Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of constable

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As a result, the eclipsed moon often appears copper, orange or deep red.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
The study said the object, which left a greenish discoloration on her palate, was unlikely to be a coin, as the proportions of copper to gold did not correspond to those found in historical alloys.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of copper

Noun

After testing what appears to be a faulty metal detector at the football field, the pigheaded space cop crashes Rushville’s town-hall meeting and is under the impression that its leader, Sheriff Kerry Kane, is talking about him.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
But, practically speaking, none of it is imaginable or executable without digital technologies that are fundamentally black-boxed, inscrutable to individual cops on the beat and institutional decision-makers alike.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of cop

Noun

Indeed, the iconic image of the unarmed British bobby was a product of this trust.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2026
The great theme of the recent Tory conference was providing reassurance—putting more bobbies on the beat, building more hospitals, raising the minimum wage and otherwise spraying money all over the place.

— The Economist, The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019

Definition of bobby

Noun

An Illinois State Police trooper found her car, a 1985 white Pontiac T1000, and marked it as abandoned.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Some of the most difficult positions to fill have been state troopers, correction officers in the prisons, and nurses in psychiatric hospitals.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of trooper

Noun

Another 170 gendarmes, or law enforcement officers, have also been dispatched to the region to support the firefighting effort.

— Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Set in the lush forests and fields of northeastern France, this excitingly offbeat first feature from Sarah Arnold depicts a gory factional war between hunters and farmers, haves and have-nots, with one depressed fish-out-of-water gendarme caught in the middle.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026

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