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Gestapo noun- the police UK, 1941
Originally used of the military police during World War 2 in a (presumably) jocular allusion to the German Secret Police of the Third Reich. Often used with “the”. - CIB3 are the old bill [police]’s internal Gestapo, out to catch wrong’uns. — J. J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 234, 2000
- uniformed personnel (such as bus inspectors) or others (such as teachers) who enjoy the little power of their authority UK, 1969
Reported by Albert E. Petch, 1969. - the motorcycle officers of the Metropolitan police traffic division UK
Police use (especially the Metropolitan Police Drugs Squad); probably inspired by the jackboots and black breeches uniform. - — The Official Encyclopaedia of New Scotland Yard, 1999
- If you really wanted to make his day, you could have called in the Gestapo[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 87, 2002
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