Thesaurus:police officer

Thesaurus

police officer

English

Noun

Sense: an officer in a law enforcement agency

Synonyms

• 5-O (US, slang)
• alphabet (US, slang)
• barney (US, slang)
• beatsman (archaic, rare)
• bizzie (UK, slang)
• bluebottle (slang)
• bluecoat (dated)
• blue heeler (Australia, slang)
• blue meanie (derogatory, slang)
• bobby (UK, slang)
• body snatcher (slang, humorous, pejorative, obsolete)
• boy in blue (US)
• bull (US, slang)
• bullyman (Australia, derogatory, slang)
• buttons (slang)
• centenier (Jersey)
• charpering omi (UK, Polari)
• chazzer (slang)
• cobbler (slang)
• cop (slang)
• copper (slang)
• cozzer (UK, slang)
• cracker (US, derogatory, slang)
• crusher (slang)
• crowns (slang, US, refering to crown victoria patrol cars)
• dibble (UK, slang)
• fed    [⇒ thesaurus]
• filth (UK, derogatory, slang)
• finest (informal, chiefly plural)
• finger    [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete, US, slang)
• five-o
• flatfoot (colloquial, archaic, pejorative)
• flatty (archaic, US, slang)
• fuzz
• garda (Ireland)
• gendarme (France)
• glowie (US, slang)
• guardian of the peace (Ireland, informal)
• harman (obsolete, thieves' cant)
• harman-beck (obsolete, thieves' cant)
• jack (Australia, UK, slang)
• jackboot (Australia, UK, slang)
• jake (US, MLE, slang)
• John Law
• John Q. Law (US)
• Johnny Hopper (UK, Cockney rhyming slang)
• lawman
• mee-maw (UK, slang)
• monarch (Aboriginal English)
• Mr Plod (UK, Australia, slang)
• mutton shunter (UK, archaic, slang)
• nuthook (obsolete)
• oinker (derogatory, slang)
• Officer Friendly (colloquial)
• Old Bill (UK, slang)
• PC Plod (UK, informal)
• pig    [⇒ thesaurus] (derogatory, slang)
• piggy (UK, derogatory, slang)
• peeler (UK, slang)
• plod (UK, slang)
• police    [⇒ thesaurus]
• police officer
• policeman
• policeperson
• polis (UK)
• po-po
• raw lobster (obsolete, slang)
• roller (slang)
• rozzer (UK, slang)
• scufter (UK, slang, dated)
• slop (UK, back slang)
• swine (derogatory, slang)
• statie (new england US, slang, a state trooper)
• twelve (US, slang)
• tyre biter (derogatory, slang)
• unboiled lobster (obsolete, slang)
• walloper (Australia, slang)
• wooden-top (UK, idiomatic)

(UK, bogey) (UK, rosa)

Antonyms

• criminal    [⇒ thesaurus]
• prisoner    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• bailiff
• bear    [⇒ thesaurus] (dated, US, slang)
• beat cop (US, slang)
• chief constable (UK)
• CI (UK & Commonwealth)
• CO (US)
• constable (UK)
• DC (UK & Commonwealth)
• detective    [⇒ thesaurus]
• fed    [⇒ thesaurus] (US, slang)
• garda (Irish)
• inspector
• K-9 unit
• military police
• mounted police
• Mountie (Canada)
• nark (slang)
• patrolman
• plainclothesman
• plainclothesperson
• plainclotheswoman
• process server
• provost
• riot police
• sergeant
• sheriff
• shoofly
• smokey (US, slang)
• state trooper (US)
• supercop
• SWAT (US)
• warrant officer
•   —
• plonk (UK, dated)
• walloper (Australia, slang)
• policewoman
• WDC (UK)
• WPC (UK)

Hypernyms

• officer
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• constabulary
• military police
• police    [⇒ thesaurus]
• police department
• police force
• police service

Metonyms

• authority
• power    [⇒ thesaurus]
• uniform

See also

• Thesaurus:soldier

Further reading

• “664. safety” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “965. jurisdiction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “police officer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.