Thesaurus:police officer
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: an officer in a law enforcement agency
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- 5-O (US, slang)
- alphabet (US, slang)
- barney (US, slang)
- beatsman (archaic, rare)
- bizzie (UK, slang)
- bluebottle (slang)
- bluecoat (dated)
- blue heeler (Australia, slang)
- blue meanie (derogatory, slang)
- bobby (UK, slang)
- body snatcher (slang, humorous, pejorative, obsolete)
- bogey (UK, slang)
- boy in blue (US)
- bull (US, slang)
- bullyman (Australia, derogatory, slang)
- buttons (slang)
- centenier (Jersey)
- charpering omi (UK, Polari)
- chazzer (slang)
- cobbler (slang)
- cop (slang)
- copper (slang)
- cozzer (UK, slang)
- cracker (US, derogatory, slang)
- crusher (slang)
- crowns (slang, US, refering to crown victoria patrol cars)
- dibble (UK, slang)
- fed [⇒ thesaurus]
- filth (UK, derogatory, slang)
- finest (informal, chiefly plural)
- finger [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete, US, slang)
- five-o
- flatfoot (colloquial, archaic, pejorative)
- flatty (archaic, US, slang)
- fuzz
- garda (Ireland)
- gendarme (France)
- glowie (US, slang)
- guardian of the peace (Ireland, informal)
- harman (obsolete, thieves' cant)
- harman-beck (obsolete, thieves' cant)
- jack (Australia, UK, slang)
- jackboot (Australia, UK, slang)
- jake (US, MLE, slang)
- John Law
- John Q. Law (US)
- Johnny Hopper (UK, Cockney rhyming slang)
- lawman
- mee-maw (UK, slang)
- monarch (Aboriginal English)
- Mr Plod (UK, Australia, slang)
- mutton shunter (UK, archaic, slang)
- nuthook (obsolete)
- oinker (derogatory, slang)
- Officer Friendly (colloquial)
- Old Bill (UK, slang)
- PC Plod (UK, informal)
- pig [⇒ thesaurus] (derogatory, slang)
- piggy (UK, derogatory, slang)
- peeler (UK, slang)
- plod (UK, slang)
- police [⇒ thesaurus]
- police officer
- policeman
- policeperson
- polis (UK)
- po-po
- raw lobster (obsolete, slang)
- roller (slang)
- rozzer (UK, slang)
- scufter (UK, slang, dated)
- slop (UK, back slang)
- swine (derogatory, slang)
- statie (new england US, slang, a state trooper)
- twelve (US, slang)
- tyre biter (derogatory, slang)
- unboiled lobster (obsolete, slang)
- walloper (Australia, slang)
- wooden-top (UK, idiomatic)
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- bailiff
- bear [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, US, slang)
- beat cop (US, slang)
- chief constable (UK)
- CI (UK & Commonwealth)
- CO (US)
- constable (UK)
- DC (UK & Commonwealth)
- detective [⇒ thesaurus]
- fed [⇒ thesaurus] (US, slang)
- garda (Irish)
- inspector
- K-9 unit
- military police
- mounted police
- Mountie (Canada)
- nark (slang)
- patrolman
- plainclothesman
- plainclothesperson
- plainclotheswoman
- process server
- provost
- riot police
- sergeant
- sheriff
- shoofly
- smokey (US, slang)
- state trooper (US)
- supercop
- SWAT (US)
- warrant officer
- —
- plonk (UK, dated)
- walloper (Australia, slang)
- policewoman
- WDC (UK)
- WPC (UK)
Hypernyms
[edit]Holonyms
[edit]Metonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “664. safety” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “965. jurisdiction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “police officer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.