What is "bobbies"

Usage examples of "bobbies".

Butchers and bobbies searching freezers and cold cabinets for dodgy-looking meat, traders screaming about their stock being interfered with, pathologists poking around anything that looked remotely abnormal.

These English hobbies worked with respect for the upright citizen's feelings, which might be one reason the English like their bobbies.

He loaded the weapon, walked back and aimed it at the door, well over the heads of the bobbies.

One of the bobbies with flashlights sprang atop a chimney, and from that high vantage point managed to sight the bronze man.

If the limo was friendly, it was a harmless misunderstanding that the bobbies could sort out.

The chances of it taking all three of us out before the bobbies arrived were slight.

The bobbies were now crossing the rock, and would reach us shortly, but it would only take seconds for that laser to do its work.

I raised an arm to wave at the bobbies, just in case they didn't realize what the situation was.

He wondered how the bobbies who weren't on the fast track could bear the prospect of week after week of pounding pavements, guarding crime scenes and, like today, tramping fruitlessly through inhospitable countryside.

I cut back up through Carter's Copse and I overheard a couple of bobbies talking about it.

We knew the ground so well, anything out of the ordinary would leap out at us, much more than it could at the bobbies they'd ferried in from all over the county.

All the technology in the world cannot replace the reassurance offered by bobbies on the beat.

The wife told me there was bobbies at the door, but I didnae believe her.

I raised an arm to wave at the bobbies, just in case they didn’t realize what the situation was.

And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the porte-cochere, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it.