eslop

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A form of esclop — The police.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nouneslop (plural eslops)

plural eslops

  1. alternativeAlternative form of esclop.

    Anything about the police sets them a talking at once. […] 'The blessed crushers are everywhere,' shouted one. 'I wish I'd been there to have had a shy at the eslops,' said another. And then a man sung out: 'O, don't I like the Bobbys?'

    1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Literature of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 25

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