motor cop

noun

A policeman driving a motorcycle.

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Meanings

nounmotor cop (plural motor cops)

plural motor cops

  1. informalA policeman driving a motorcycle.

    I kept my speedometer at forty or under; Wolfe had told Anderson this would be unostentatious, and besides, I wasn't in the mood for repartee with a motor cop.

    1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 274
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