WordNet
n. a policeman who rides a motorcycle (and who checks the speeds of motorists) [syn: motorcycle policeman, speed cop]
Usage examples of "motorcycle cop".
Looking quickly in his rearview mirror, he thought he caught a glimpse of a motorcycle cop, and so refrained from pushing the car much over eighty.
A police siren's harsh on-and-off blare broke into his thoughts, and glancing in his mirror, he saw a motorcycle cop on his tail, lights flashing.
None bore the slightest resemblance to Viceroy Wilson, and the motorcycle cop’.
None bore the slightest resemblance to Viceroy Wilson, and the motorcycle cop's radio alert was dismissed as a false alarm.
On the morning of the twenty-second of March, as each of the review committee members drove out of his driveway he was met by a motorcycle cop who was briefed to greet him in more or less these words: 'Good morning, sir, I am instructed to escort you to the university.
He had had some narrow escapes as a motorcycle cop, and the fact that he would not ride Sue Ellen's bike, under any circumstances, had helped make her take his warnings seriously, but not enough to give up the motorcycle.
He looked to the front again to see the motorcycle cop was firmly waving him onto the hard shoulder.
They were flagged down once by a motorcycle cop just outside Jersey City, but he seemed more interested in checking Edgar's driver's license than questioning their destination.
The motorcycle cop went into the glass-enclosed toll booth and studied the list of wanted cars.
The JANIG car was closer, and the motorcycle cop had almost caught up!
I tried to catch up, but a motorcycle cop pulled me over for a bad turn.
At the front of the line of three black Volvos there was a white VW bus, an unmarked police vehicle, and a motorcycle cop.