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bent copper

noun

Etymology

From bent (“not straight, corrupt, dishonest”) + copper (“policeman”), a variant of cop. It could also be a pun taken from a bent copper coin.

Definitions

  1. A corrupt police officer.

    • Anticorruption is a double-edged sword. We need to find just enough bent coppers to avoid accusations of a cover-up, but not so many that the public starts to wonder if the police can be trusted.
    • He had always been a bent copper. He had joined the police force with the intention of being a bent copper. In that, he had been eminently successful.

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