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bluebottle noun- a police officer UK, 1846
A singular occurence in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1, 1597, then unrecorded until 1846. - “You watch it, you bluebottle,” he said. — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 37, 1962
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 28, 1996
- [S]ix bluebottles, all restlessly eager for action[.] — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 351, 2002
- a Ministry of Defence uniformed warden UK, 1969
- a Portugese man-of-war US
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 12, 1991
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