rozzer

[ roz-er ]

noun

, British Slang.

1. a policeman.

rozzer

/ ˈrɒzə /

noun

1. slang.
   a policeman

Word History and Origins

Origin of rozzer¹

First recorded in 1890–95; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of rozzer¹

C19: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

They won't know whether the rozzer is mummy or daddy.

From The Guardian

A commenter called Rozzer offered an especially strong defense of the spice, which I’ve shortened here: Pepper completely elevates and transforms numerous fundamentally bland and insipid foods—to the point that the pepper very much becomes the point.

From Slate

He knew that a gulf of several hemispheres was fixed between a real three-stripe rozzer of the Metropolitan Force and a thing it had pleased fate to call by the name of Henry Harper.

From Project Gutenberg

There at the end of the ground by the farther goal, in the shadow of the legend, Blackhampton Empire Twice Nightly, painted in immense letters on a giant hoarding, was the tree out of which young Arris fell and was pinched by a rozzer on the never-to-be-forgotten day when the Villa came to play the Rovers in that immortal cup tie it had been the glory of his youth to witness.

From Project Gutenberg

Poor Keeley, she's only just been killed off as one TV rozzer, now she's immediately reborn as another.

From The Guardian