Cops

Definitions

1. The connecting crook of a harrow.
   UK, dialectal
2. The police, considered as a group entity.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“"Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch⟳ out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch⟳ out too," answered Jack Sagger.”

“I saw⟳ them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call⟳ up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive⟳ on the scene”

“It is almost needless to say⟳, that the true point⟳ of draught should be exactly in the centre notch of the cops[…]”

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