POLICE OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police officer mean? 

• POLICE OFFICER (noun)
  The noun POLICE OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. a member of a police force

  Familiarity information: POLICE OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a police force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

officer; police officer; policeman

Context example:

it was an accident, officer

Hypernyms ("police officer" is a kind of...):

law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police officer"):

bobby (an informal term for a British policeman)

bull; cop; copper; fuzz; pig (uncomplimentary terms for a policeman)

captain; police captain; police chief (a policeman in charge of a precinct)

constable; police constable (a police officer of the lowest rank)

detective; investigator; police detective; tec (a police officer who investigates crimes)

gendarme (a French policeman)

inspector (a high ranking police officer)

motorcycle cop; motorcycle policeman; speed cop (a policeman who rides a motorcycle (and who checks the speeds of motorists))

police matron; policewoman (a woman policeman)

Mountie (colloquial term for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)

shoofly (an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen)

traffic cop (a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic)

trooper (a mounted police officer)

state trooper; trooper (a state police officer)

Holonyms ("police officer" is a member of...):

constabulary; law; police; police force (the force of policemen and officers)

 Context examples 

Several constables and special police officers, anticipating trouble, trailed along to prevent it, and herded the two gangs separately aboard the train for San Francisco.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then there came a time of trouble, a police officer was killed, many were arrested, evidence was wanted, and in order to save his own life and to earn a great reward, my husband betrayed his own wife and his companions.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)