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law
noun
▶ have the law on
to inform the police about someone UK, 1800- — John Ayto, Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 100, 1998
▶ the law- the police, the law enforcement authorities US, 1893
- All I could think of was the law had nailed Mike and Mackey in The Bunk. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 266, 1946
- We’re liable to get pinched for mashing on Sixty-third. I heard the Law is watching that pretty close. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 38, 1947
- It’s the Law, he thought, and he was stricken with fear. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 5, 1952
- The Law’s after her and we’d better find her before they do. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 159, 1952
- Two detectives walked in and leaned on the bar, talking to the bartender. Jack jerked his head in their direction. “The law. Let’s take a walk.” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 21, 1953
- The men grumble and reluctantly spread themselves along the wall, prodded by the Law. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 31, 1972
- your parents US
Teen slang. - — American Weekly, p. 2, 14 August 1955
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