Cents before 1982

Usage examples of coppers.

It still irked Vimes that the little training school in the old lemonade factory was turning out so many coppers who quit the city the moment their probation was up.

It would have worked, too, if only there had been enough coppers - say, three per citizen.

Bad coppers had always had their ways of finding out if someone was guilty.

All the coppers who heard it would converge on it, because an Officer was in Trouble.

On that road coppers rolled drunks for their small change and assured one another that bribes were just perks, and it got worse.

And if you were lucky and they were sensible, they found somewhere between impossible perfection and the Pit where they could be real coppers - slightly tarnished, because the job did that to you, but not rotten.

How had he even dreamed that a bunch of coppers could slam the cell door on the boss?

People expected all kinds of things from coppers, but there was one thing that sooner or later they all wanted: make this not be happening.

The old coppers were best at running, having run so much during their lives.

Brysta, and when he began to ask for coppers, most moved well away from him.

She had eaten, and she had found coppers, but he was missing something.

When he found out that fellow been lifting coppers, he booted him off just like that, and he took his crew share, divided it among the hands who lost coins.

He handed over four coppers and received another smile, a brief one as she hurried back to the kitchen.

Special Branch coppers working under himthey do the surveillance, arrests, all the legwork, that sort of thing.

Stilton put a few coppers on the table and waved Cal down when he reached for his wallet.