Meanings
nounbrother-officer (plural brother-officers)
plural brother-officers
- A fellow police officer
A brother-officer, evidently taking two country cousins round London, nodded resignedly; a woman at whose house he had danced several times smiled at him.
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
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