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town clown
noun
in carnival usage, a local police officer US, 1989- As I was chalking my cue, who walked in the door but the town clown. — Robert Byrne, McGoorty, p. 99, 1972
- The box was on the balcony and we laid on the floor and watched the town-clown [local policeman] go all over the first floor but he never came near the box. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 43, 1972
- — Lindsay E. Smith and Bruce A. Walstad, Sting Shift, p. 117, 1989: “Glossary”
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