English

Noun

Sense: a civil force granted the legal authority to enforce the law and maintain public order

Synonyms

• 5-O
• Babylon(Jamaica, Toronto, UK)
• bacon
• Big Blue Machine
• boydem(Toronto & UK)
• constabulary
• dibble(UK)
• donut patrol(US)
• ducks and geese(UK, Cockney rhyming slang)
• ecilop(UK, backslang)
• esclop(UK, backslang)
• feds
• filth
• five-o
• fuzz
• garda(Irish)
• gardai(Irish)
• gendarmerie
• heat
• law   [⇒ thesaurus]
• monarch(Australia)
• Old Bill(UK)
• piglice
• plod(UK)
• po-po(US & HK)
• police
• police department
• police force
• police service
• polis(UK)
• thin blue line(colloquial)
• any plural synonym ofpolice officer

Hyponyms

• Gardai
• LAPD
• Met
• NYPD
• RCMP
• Scotland Yard
• Sûreté
•   —
• CID
• CSI
• flying squad
• SOCO
• Special Branch
• SWAT

Meronyms

• police officer   [⇒ thesaurus]
• police vehicle   [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• charpering carsey(UK, Polari)
• cop shop(UK & Commonwealth, slang)
• nick(UK, slang)
• police station
• precinct(US)

Metonyms

• authority
• law   [⇒ thesaurus]
• power   [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• beat
• manor(UK, slang)
• patch(UK, slang)
• precinct(US)

See also

Further reading