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dibble
noun
an encounter with the police; the police; a police officer UK
Appeared in this sense during the 1990s; after Officer Dibble, the police character in cult television cartoon series Top Cat, Hanna Barbera, 1961.- A cry went up into the dawn sky. “Beast! Dibbles! Beast! Beastbwai!” — Karline Smith, Moss Side Massive, p. 102, 1994
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 43, 1996
- You’d think Johnny would have had the sense not to tell the Dibble who put him in hospital[.] — Val McDermid, Keeping on the Right Side of the Law, pp. 179–180, 1999
- The squaddie Dibble resentfully handed me the money[.] — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 6, 1999
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