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bob·by

(bŏb′ē)

n. pl. bob·bies Chiefly British

A police officer.

[After Sir Robert Peelhome secretary of England when the Metropolitan Police Force was created in 1829.]

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bobby

(ˈbɒbɪ)

n, pl -bies

informal a British policeman

[C19: from Bobby after Sir Robert Peel, who, as Home Secretary, set up the Metropolitan Police Force in 1828]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bob•by

(ˈbɒb i)

n., pl. -bies.

Brit. policeman.

[1835–45; generic use of Bobby, for Sir Robert Peel]

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Noun

bobby - an informal term for a British policeman

police officer, policeman, officer - a member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer"

bobby

noun

Chiefly British. A member of a law-enforcement agency:

bluecoat, finest, officer, patrolman, patrolwoman, peace officer, police, policeman, police officer, policewoman.

Informal: cop, law.

Slang: bull, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, heat, man (often uppercase).

Chiefly British: constable, peeler.

Translations

Polizist Polizistin

bobbykeuf

zsaru

poliziotto

bobby

[ˈbɒbɪ] N (Brit) (= policeman) → poli m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bobby

[ˈbɒbi] n (British) (old-fashioned) → agent m (de police)bobby pin n (US) → pince f à cheveux

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bobby

n (dated Brit inf) → Bobby m, → Schupo m (dated)

bobby

bobby-dazzler

n (dated Brit inf) (= object) → Knüller m (inf), → Sensation f; (= girl) → Augenweide f

bobby pin

n (US) → Haarklemme f

bobby sox

pl (dated US) → kurze Söckchen pl

bobbysoxer

n (dated US inf) → Teenager m, → junges Mädchen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bobby

[ˈbɒbɪ] n (Brit) (fam) → poliziotto

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He envied the purple-nosed old cab-drivers on the stand, the boot-black boys at the edge of the pavement, the two large bobbies pacing slowly along the Tower Gardens railings in the consciousness of their infallible might, and the bright scarlet sentries walking smartly to and fro before the Mint.

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And I wish her safe home, and if I was on the rack I could tell no more, except that when I got back I were laid hands on by these here bobbies, contrary to the British constitooshun, and if your ladyship will kindly go to where that constitooshun is wrote down, and find out wot it sez about my rights and liberties--for I have been told that the working-man has his liberties, and have myself seen plenty took with him --you will oblige a common chap more than his education will enable him to express."

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THE TWO BOBBIES Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Bobby Robson team up for the cause in County Durham tomorrow.; RED SUPPORT 1 Mick Hucknall, of Simply Red.; RED SUPPORT 2 Sir Alex Ferguson, of Manchester United.

Fellow knights are backing Sir Bobby; Ferguson and Charlton join big fundraiser

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