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peeler noun- a police officer IRELAND, 1817
After Robert Peel, as founder of the Irish constabulary. - The peelers wanted him whacked. We whacked him and that’s the end of the story as far as I’m concerned. — The Guardian, 19 June 2002
- a striptease dancer US
- The flatfeet tore down the billing and wouldn’t let her work. They said she was a peeler. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 163, 1948
- They’re not all pimping like crazy for a peeler with the roundest heels in the Borough of Manhattan. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 38, 1954
- “I light up. I’m the only peeler in the business who gets lit.” — Monroe Fry, Sex, Vice, and Business, p. 62, 1959
- a fast, well-developed wave US
- — John Severson, Modern Surfing Around the World, p. 175, 1964
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