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copper
noun- a police officer UK, 1846
Derives from COP - I couldn’t figure out why a copper would go poking his nose under the seat of a respectable-looking cab at six in the A.M. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 32, 1946
- [T]here was a chance that either the police might walk in on me or the little guy get suspicious enough of my being away so long he’d call a copper. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 58, 1947
- Now how did I know you were a copper? — Marvin Wald and Albert Maltz, The Naked City, 1947
- Sheik looked dazed. “Can’t no copper hurt me,” he muttered thickly[.] — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 92, 1959
- Well, this big fat copper looks at him dead savage[.] — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 7, 1964
- You bloody copper bastard! — D.E. Charlwood, All the Green Year, p. 66, 1965
- And every copper is on the take, you know, up and down the line. — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 117, 1967
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 40, 1996
- So the coppers walked off[.] — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 12, 2000
- Most of the coppers I worked with at street level are ace guys[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 11, 2002
- a police informer UK, 1937
- a prison informer UK, 1961
- a pre-decimal penny or halfpenny coin; a post-decimal twopenny or one-penny coin; such coins mixed UK, 1712
Originally, about 1840, of coins actually made of copper; the term has survived bronze and further debasement.
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