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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