rozzer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rozzer
First recorded in 1890–95; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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They won't know whether the rozzer is mummy or daddy.
From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2014
Poor Keeley, she's only just been killed off as one TV rozzer, now she's immediately reborn as another.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2010
Idris Elba is excellent again in his second outing as hard-nosed London rozzer John Luther.
From The Guardian • May 11, 2010
Even their slang�in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"� is more quaint than sinister.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.
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