sleeping policeman

noun

1. a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to deter motorists from speeding Alsoroad hump

Example Sentences

Pollux crouched next to a sleeping policeman.

From Literature

In a post on the Virgin website, the 66-year-old said: "I was heading down a hill towards Leverick Bay when it suddenly got really dark and I managed to hit a sleeping policeman hump in the road head on. "I really thought I was going to die.

From BBC

In the first episode, Gerald and his team set out to reduce the height of a sleeping policeman.

From The Guardian

The credits appear over the image of a sleeping policeman.

From The New Yorker

Then we slips over into the yards below Riverside Drive, taking due care not to wake up no sleeping policeman on the way.

From Project Gutenberg