bulkies

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noun

The police.

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Meanings

bulkies1

noun
  1. pluralplural of bulkie

Bulkies2

nounBulkies pl (plural only)
  1. Irelandobsoletepluralplural onlyslangThe police.

    […] the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the "Bulkies."

    1891, Irish Builder and Engineer, volume 33, page 122
    1 more example

    In his study of the Belfast Town Police (nicknamed "the Bulkies"), Brian Griffin has argued that the force's sectarian reputation was more a matter of appearance […] than behavior.

    2023, Sean Farrell, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, page 253

Origin

Perhaps from their bulky figures.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

buslike
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Chicago

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