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finest
noun
the police US, 1914
Used with irony, alluding to the popular phrase identifying a city’s policemen as “the city’s finest citizens”. In 1875, New York began to claim it had the “finest police force in the world”, a phrase borrowed from the claim of General Joseph Hooker during the US Civil War that he commanded “the finest army on the planet”. In the early C20, New York began to refer to its fire department as “the bravest” and the police simply as “the finest”.- Those two representatives of New York’s finest stared at me as though I had two heads. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 301, 1946
- “You mean,” I said sarcastically, “that the Finest haven’t got one single unsolved murder on their hands?” — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 65, 1951
- I’ve been one of this city’s finest for six years and I’ve never shot anybody once, not even accidentally. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 51, 1960
- And two of Berkeley’s finest marched Mario Savio off from amidst a crowd of demonstrators. — Berkeley Barb, p. 3, 2 December 1966
- And then it was our turn and sure enough, in charged four of the finest, with expressions of rage such as I have never seen. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950–1995, p. 126, November 1968
- I took another sip of coffee and turned around to check her out and saw two of New York’s finest coming in the slammer. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 151, 1973
- New York’s finest, Chiodo thought. The phrase covered a lot of ground. — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 147, 1973
- “I thought the Finest were my friends,” Francis said. — Robert Deane Pharr, Giveadamn Brown, p. 21, 1978
- “Oh, Jesus Christ!” whined Seymour, pushing his stocky way through the crowd of New York’s finest to sit on the edge of his desk. — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 195, 1998
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