| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A member of a law-enforcement agency: bluecoat, finest, officer, patrolman, patrolwoman, peace officer, policeman, police officer, policewoman. Informal : cop, law. Slang : bull1, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, heat, man (often uppercase). Chiefly British : bobby, constable, peeler. See LAW. | | VERB: | 1. To maintain or keep in order with or as if with police: patrol. See LAW. 2. To make or keep (an area) clean and orderly: clean (up), clear (up), neaten (up), spruce (up), straighten (up), tidy (up). See ORDER.
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