Meaning of thin blue line | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The police.
   collective, colloquial
2. A flag or symbol representing the police, commonly associated with the blue lives matter movement.

Examples

“Crime wave⟳ overwhelms thin blue line [title]”

“It followed dire warnings from the police staff associations that the possible loss of up to 40,000 police jobs would mean⟳ “Christmas coming early” for criminals, and the “thin blue line” left too stretched to cope with the inevitable risk⟳ of social and industrial unrest.”

““Obviously, you’ve seen caravans with the Trump flag in the back of pickup trucks and then the thin blue line,” Mr. DeMasi, a former police officer, said. “I think⟳ maybe people had a good intention, but it ended up giving the meaning of the thin blue line a black eye.””

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