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Sweeney
noun
▶ on your Sweeney
on your own IRELAND- “Are ye doing a job?” I ask him. He just nods his head. “Are ye on yer Sweeney, are ye?” “Well, I’ve no-one with me yet.” — Howard Paul, The Joy, p. 66, 1996
▶ the Sweeney
the Flying Squad, Metropolitan Police branch C1 (1921–48), subsequently C8; a member of the Flying Squad UK, 1938
Rhyming slang formed from “Sweeney Todd” for “Flying Squad”. Sweeney Todd was the legendary “Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. Brought to widespread popular attention by television police drama series The Sweeney, originally broadcast from 1974–78, which gave the impression that all police work was about guns and fast cars.- [T]he “Sweeney” won a national reputation as a dashing and daring unit of gang-busters. — The Sweeney, p. 3, 1976
- He trusted Gerry’s driving ability–as he did any Sweeney. — The Sweeney, p. 52, 1976
- Why get blown away by the Sweeney going across the pavement for ten grand’s worth of stolen Tom [jewellery]? — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 24, 2001
- [D]emonstrators catching their breath, gazing in all directions like the Sweeney when they’ve lost a criminal[.] — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 40, 2001
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