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shoo-fly
noun- a police officer assigned to investigate the integrity of other policemen US
- — New York Times Magazine, p. 88, 16 March 1958
- [A]lthough Walsh’s investigators–or “shoo-flies”–caught countless cops in minor violations of the department’s rules and procedures, they somehow turned up very little graft. — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 172, 1973
- The shoofly’s looking for you. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 170, 1973
- I used to do it then figuring the phones in the poolroom or the bar was tapped and Moran’s name would get on some shoo-fly tape. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 16, 1975
- “But now they flop you for nothing, shoofly all over,” Valentin said. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 17, 1977
- The key to it would be the Internal Affairs shooflies. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 113, 1979
- on the railways, a temporary track bypassing an unusable section of track US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 268, 1946
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