Definition of boys in blue

boys in blue

noun - plural

• the police.
  • See more words with the same meaning: police officer.

  Last edited on Dec 29 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 29 2010.

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Slang terms with the same meaning

Other terms relating to 'police officer':
law dog	Definitions include: a member of the police force.
sleuth	Definitions include: a detective.
5-oh	Definitions include: the police.
piggy	Definitions include: pig.
ro-slo	Definitions include: City Police.
uni	Definitions include: university.
fed	Definitions include: a member of the federal government.
smokey	Definitions include: a police officer.
hot boys	Definitions include: Police.
Jake	Definitions include: a police officer.
po po	Definitions include: police.
pigs	Definitions include: Police, Authorities.
po folk	Definitions include: the police or the "po-po" originated from Harlem.
brass, the	Definitions include: the police.
flatfoot	Definitions include: a police officer.
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Other terms relating to 'blue':
Big Blue Room, the	Definitions include: outdoors, during the day.
blue	Definitions include: sad.
blue-badge	Definitions include: a full-time Microsoft employee.
blue-baller	Definitions include: Someone who has an ache in their testicles due to prolonged periods of sexlessness or sexual frustration.
blue balls	Definitions include: a painful sensation in the balls (testicles) caused by prolonged sexual arousal that does not end in ejaculation.
blue blood	Definitions include: a nobleperson or aristocrat.
Blue B's, the	Definitions include: the traditionally blue (Democratic) cities of Berkeley, California; Boulder, Colorado; and Brooklyn, New York, New York.
blue-collar	Definitions include: pertaining to unskilled or manual labor.
blue-collar job	Definitions include: a job requiring unskilled or manual labor.
Blue Dolphin	Definitions include: ice water, when ordered at a bar or other establishment that serves alcohol.
blue-eyed boy	Definitions include: a person's favorite person.
Blue Falcon	Definitions include: "buddy fucker".
blue-hair	Definitions include: an elderly person.
blue marble	Definitions include: Earth.
blue pill	Definitions include: a pill of an erectile disfunction medication.
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Other terms relating to 'boy':
altar boy	Definitions include: prescription drug in pill form providing temporary pharmaceutical relief for males with erectile dysfunction.
attaboy	Definitions include: interjection of encouragement.
bad boy	Definitions include: generic term for a specific object; "thing".
b-boy	Definitions include: a fan of hip hop / rap culture.
beach boy	Definitions include: a preppy person that smokes weed.
blue-eyed boy	Definitions include: a person's favorite person.
boi	Definitions include: alternate spelling of "boy".
boy	Definitions include: See also my boy.
boy band	Definitions include: a pop group whose members are young men.
boy howdy	Definitions include: exclamation of excitement.
boys	Definitions include: the police.
Boy Scout	Definitions include: a male who helps strangers.
boys in blue, the	Definitions include: police officers.
boy toy	Definitions include: a male with whom one has an intimate relationship.
bug boy	Definitions include: a horse jockey trainee
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Other terms relating to 'in':
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
ace in the hole	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
all in	Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
an ice cube's chance in hell	Definitions include: no chance.
a walk in the park	Definitions include: something easy.
back in the day	Definitions include: at some time before the present.
back in the saddle	Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
baked-in	Definitions include: included.
bald man in a boat	Definitions include: clitoris.
barge in	Definitions include: to intrude.
barge in on	Definitions include: See barge in.
Bash one's skull in	Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
bat in the cave	Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
BBIAB	Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."
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