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Traffic cop   /trˈæfɪk kɑp/   Listen
Traffic cop

noun
1.
A policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic.






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"Traffic cop" Quotes from Famous Books



... the medical school surely do amuse me," he laughed. "When I tell 'em I'm to be a missionary doctor, which I do first thing to give 'em sort of a shock they don't often get, they stand off and say, 'What, you!' as if I had told 'em I was to be a traffic cop, or a trapeze artist in the circus. Some of 'em seem to think I'm queer in the head, but, boys, they are the ones with rooms to let. When the others talk about hanging out a shingle in Chicago or Saint Louis or Cleveland or some ...
— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt

... betray it. I watch to see and when they cross, they just cross—that's all. Not with nonchalance exactly, but with ease and assurance. Once I actually saw a man, a native son, I'm sure, roll a cigarette as he crossed at a point where even the traffic cop looked nervous. ...
— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey



Words linked to "Traffic cop" :   policeman, officer, crossing guard, pointsman, police officer



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