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harness
adjective
uniformed US, 1903- [H]e began fancying the aces waiting for him, harness bulls and soft-clothes dicks, on every West Side platform. — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 329, 1949
- In two minutes a squad car pulled up to the curb and a pair of harness bulls jumped out. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 10, 1950
- They hurried to join the group of harness cops converging on the fighters. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. x, 1957
- A tough-faced harness bull clomped into the arcade and handed Ferris a shoebox[.] — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 31, 1966
- With all the harness bulls from the local precinct who’re never supposed to go near the place standing round us in a circle jerk, smiling their jive asses off. — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 70, 1976
- I was in a schoolyard, fer chrissake, maybe five, ten minutes, when these two cops from the 86th precinct bum-rap me! Can you imagine? Two dumb harness-bulls run me in for ‘loitering with sexual intent.’ — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 146, 2001
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