WordNet
n. someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies [syn: deputy]
Usage examples of "deputy sheriff".
Liysa gave Birmingham essentially the same version of the night of October 9 that she had told to Deputy Dick Bobbitt and Deputy Sheriff Kevin Larkin.
So he let her run for it, and just managed to reload and pin his own badge to his own chest by the time that deputy sheriff and a quartet of town constables showed up out back, their own guns drawn.
Clive, the deputy sheriff who had first approached him when he arrived there, gave him a shy, acknowledging wave.
Moving back up, she began unbuttoning his shirt and only then noticed that he wore a deputy sheriff's uniform, the shirt stretched tight across his chest and shoulders.
He wore a Russian-style hat with the flaps pulled down and a deputy sheriff’.
Tosh had been a deputy sheriff in Craighead County when the West Memphis murders occurred, and in the months after the arrests, he’.
He seemed uncertain about where to go with this, his head lowered, his deputy sheriff’.
He seemed uncertain about where to go with this, his head lowered, his deputy sheriff's hat in his hands.
King Fisher, a gunman of no mean ability and then deputy sheriff of Uvalde County, went to the theatre to see the show.