Tag
#police
4 words tagged “police”
Esclop
noun
Cockney back-slang for 'police' — 'police' spoken roughly backwards so the law wouldn't twig.
Keuf
noun
Verlan for 'flic' (cop) — the standard banlieue word for a police officer.
Ripou
adjective
Verlan for 'pourri' (rotten) — specifically a corrupt cop on the take.
Charpering Omi
noun
Polari for a policeman — literally a 'searching man', the figure most feared by speakers.