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- noun UK, slang A
police officer .
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Examples
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Dickiebo refers to an ‘idiotic’ DJ – and implied that I am not fit to be a rozzer because I disagree with him and support the lawful verdict of an English court.
G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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I could actually ask one of them actually as I seem to recall a neighbour being a drug rozzer or similar.
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I could actually ask one of them actually as I seem to recall a neighbour being a drug rozzer or similar.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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"My name is Alex Drake, and quite frankly your guess is as good as mine," begins the new - and last ever series of the time-travel rozzer nostalgia fest.
The Guardian World News Sam Wollaston 2010
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Idris Elba is excellent again in his second outing as hard-nosed London rozzer John Luther.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Jersey Shore, while Steven Seagal pounds the beat as a real-life rozzer
WN.com - Articles related to Penelope, Javier to rebuild schools in Haiti 2010
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You can have my radio rozzer-when you prize it from my cold dead hands.
Chelsea Blog 2009
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We want some serious rozzer body-count next time round, not just hippy songs and whining about having to piss in the street … offensive satire
Pigdogfucker 2009
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Drokk (2000AD) The swear of choice of futuristic rozzer Judge Dredd, usually uttered when he's narked off with a perp.
SFX 2009
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You can have my radio rozzer-when you prize it from my cold dead hands.
Chelsea Blog 2009
gangerh commented on the word rozzer
Slang for policeman - England.
February 3, 2008
sarra commented on the word rozzer
Has many suggestions regarding origin, most of them baseless, but my current favourite (regardless of truth factor) is that it's a companion to peeler — both from the name of Robert Peel.
archived discussion from sci.lang
March 5, 2008
gangerh commented on the word rozzer
Do you mean, sarra, Roz as a diminutive of Robert, then becoming Rozzer. Like Daz and Dazzer for Darren, and Maz and Mazzer for Malcolm?
March 5, 2008
skipvia commented on the word rozzer
I'm delighted to know that rozzer is a vetted term. I remember a piece from Mad Magazine from a very long time ago that dealt with slang, and one of the example sentences was "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide." (Translation: "It's crazy to pay off a cop in phony money.")
Why I can remember that and not some of my students' last names from last semester is a puzzle to me. (Do you want to know my 7th grade locker combination? I've got that...)
March 5, 2008
sionnach commented on the word rozzer
Just like schnoz and schnozzer being derived from schnurrbart.
March 5, 2008
sarra commented on the word rozzer
vetted?
And yes. Like rugger for rugby, too (although wrong era, and wrong class of speaker, but still).
March 7, 2008