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词组 demon
释义 demon
noun
a police detective, or, loosely, a police officer AUSTRALIA, 1898
Originally criminal slang. The suggestion in the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement (1972) that it is somehow extracted from Van Diemen’s Land, a former name of the penal colony of Tasmania, seems tenuous at best.
  • Rufe had been depending on him for a handout to take him north maybe, or to the sugar canefields; west even, to the pearling grounds. Heck, anywhere out of reach of the demons. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 8, 1969
  • Was in the back bar at the “Queen’s” in Southport one day having a couple with two Demons. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 18, 1979
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