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manor
noun- a district designated to a specified police authority UK, 1924
- I’ve got my sources of information in every manor in the smoke [London]. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 91, 1956
- [O]n this manor[.] — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 122, 1958
- “Which manor?” “The local nick [police station].” — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 47, 1962
- He’s Superintendent of this manor — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- [T]he Sergeant warned him about operating on “my manor without a licence”. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 3, 1994
- Putney station was my ground–we don’t call it “manor” or “patch”, as you may have heard thrown about on TV by screenwriters who haven’t done their research properly. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 58, 2002
- the area where you are born, or where you live and/or are well known UK
- [W]ith pressure on him from all over the manor–pressure from the law, from the income-tax boys — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on Its Uppers, p. 25, 1962
- I was sitting on my jack [alone], in a dusty old saloon bar deep in the backstreets of the old manor[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 17, 2000
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