motor cop

English

Noun

motor cop (plural motor cops)

  1. (informal) A policeman driving a motorcycle.
    • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 274:
      I kept my speedometer at forty or under; Wolfe had told Anderson this would be unostentatious, and besides, I wasn't in the mood for repartee with a motor cop.
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