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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A generic police officer, or the police in general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by Private Eye as "Knacker of the Yard", a pun on knacker's yard and the practice of referring to Scotland Yard as the Yard.
