noun
General Slang
the dibble
· noun · mancunian
The police — specifically Greater Manchester's finest.
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The police. Used singular or plural — 'the dibble are out tonight', 'there's a dibble parked on the corner'. Cartoonish on purpose, which is half the point: it takes the edge off them.
“Knock it on the head, the dibble just pulled up.”
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the dibble In A Sentence
Knock it on the head, the dibble just pulled up.
Origin & Usage
Lifted from Officer Charlie Dibble, the put-upon cop chasing the gang in Hanna-Barbera's Top Cat (1961, broadcast in the UK as Boss Cat). Mancunians ran with it and never let go.
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