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wooden-top

noun

Etymology

The expression may be a reference to the wooden construction of a bobby's custodian helmet.

Definitions

  1. A uniformed police officer.

    • Immediately a big wooden-top came in. He was young and blond.
    • It is Detective Chief Superintendent Cohn Harpur, one of the bosses, but just a wooden-top like all the rest.

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