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white mice
noun- during the conflict in Vietnam, the South Vietnamese civilian police US, 1977
From their white helmets and gloves. - The remaining terrorist on the balcony slumped to his knees as the White Mice, the alert, efficient, white-garbed Vietnamese police, entered. — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 143, 1967
- Below the RF’s and the PF’s (collectively known as Ruff-Puffs) were regular national police, white suited, pistol-carrying cops known as White Mice. — Ward S. Just, To What End, p. 136, 1968
- After seven in the evening, when the curfew included Americans and became total, nothing but White Mice patrols and MP jeeps moved in the streets[.] — Michael Herr, Dispatches, p. 70, 1977
- If I tried I would only be mugged by the locals or shot by the “white mice” for being out after curfew. — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 240, 1991
- dice UK
Rhyming slang. - — Picture Post, 2 January 1954
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