Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A policeman who patrols or polices an assigned area.
- noun One who patrols an assigned area.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the police force of a town or city who patrols a certain “beat”; one of the patrol; a policeman; specifically, in some large cities of the United States, a member of the principal body of the police force ranking below a roundsman.
- noun Hence One who goes over a certain course examining something, as the condition of an electric circuit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
police officer , especially a junior one who does patrol instead of detection or supervising other policemen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a policeman who patrols a given region
Etymologies
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Examples
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A patrolman from a small suburban police force spotted him walking down a tree-lined street, holding what looked like an open bottle of beer.
'Teflon Defendant' walks straight into trouble Dan Morse 2010
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A patrolman from a small suburban police force spotted him walking down a tree-lined street, holding what looked like an open bottle of beer.
'Teflon Defendant' walks into trouble Dan Morse 2010
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A patrolman from a small suburban police force spotted him walking down a tree-lined street, holding what looked like an open bottle of beer.
'Teflon Defendant' walks straight into trouble Dan Morse 2010
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At first Contos looks back from his boat without offering help but later returns and plucks the patrolman from the water.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .” 2008
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And if Officer Eliseo was serious about community beautification, he might want to excuse himself from the premises: the disheveled, paunchy patrolman is in quick need of a decent haircut and a girdle.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002
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You realize with a start that the highway patrolman is after YOU.
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"patrolman" being promoted to acting SGT and AST Chief.
unknown title 2009
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"patrolman" being promoted to acting SGT and AST Chief.
unknown title 2009
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"patrolman" being promoted to acting SGT and AST Chief.
unknown title 2009
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Come to think of it when I put it that way, I prefer the system here to California´s rigorously honest system where there is no way you are going to bribe a highway patrolman.
Disgusting Thieves 2009
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