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Old Bill

noun

  1. a policeman
  2. the Old Bill
    functioning as plural policemen collectively or in general
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Old Bill1

C20: of uncertain origin: perhaps derived from the World War I cartoon of a soldier with a drooping moustache
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Example Sentences

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Just awhile ago, this kind of talk didn’t exist, but such fruition will not come true since good old Bill Plaschke has predicted that it’s time for the Lakers’ 18th title run.

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I am ready to believe that this is being done not merely as a favor to old Bill; likely there is some private polling that has convinced the campaign that this will be an asset.

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Clive Driscoll told the BBC: "People often said to me, there was a wall of silence. There was never a wall of silence. There was a wall of fear, though. And so if you were going to alert everybody, that this bloke has talked to the old bill, you are effectively, alerting the bad guys… and that cannot be good police work."

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Days later, the Senate revived the effort and inserted language from the old bill about personal pronouns in schools and government entities into the new bill that passed in both chambers this week.

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Sources vary as to how old Bill Robinson was when he made the trip to Washington with Toney and took a job at the track.

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