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bobby

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bob=by

CIDE DICTIONARY

bobbyn. 
     A nickname for a British policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.  Dickens.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bobby, n. (pl. -ies) Brit. colloq. a policeman.

bobby, n. (pl. -ies) (in full bobby calf) Austral. & NZ an unweaned calf slaughtered for veal.

Etymology
Eng. dial.

THESAURUS

bobby

Dogberry, John Law, bluebottle, bluecoat, bull, constable, cop, copper, dick, flatfoot, flattie, gendarme, gumshoe, officer, paddy, peeler, pig, shamus, the cops, the fuzz, the law

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