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boys in blue
noun
the police; sailors; US Federal troops UK, 1851
Rarely, if ever, occurs in the singular. Derives from the colour of the uniform; sometimes heard as “men in blue” or “gentlemen in blue”.- One or two of the boys in blue will dull this lull with well-whipped heads needing white-togged meds. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 18, 1959
- Some time around ten or ten thirty we’ll get a visit from the boys in blue. — Donald Goines, White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief, p. 81, 1973
- [T]he publican will be belling the boys in blue[.] — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 35, 1999
- As one of the boys in blue, I would stumble on an unexpected perk[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 69, 2002
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