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  • noun Plural form of policeman.

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Examples

  • (_Enter the chief of police, two policemen, and a man with his hands bound behind his back_.) _The two policemen_ (_striking the man_).

    Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

  • For protection, the First Family was guarded by the Secret Service, and in addition, the White House itself had its guards in the form of policemen from the regular Washington Police Force.

    The Care and Feeding of the First Family | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • Mr. Hodges and I do agree that yelling irrationally at policemen is a good way to get arrested – even if one is, like me, a person of pallor.

    Professor Gates in a Parallel Universe 2009

  • Via The Bookseller blog and The Sunday Times: Ian Rankin, creator ofJohn Rebus, one of the UK's most popular fictional policemen, is to head a Labour commission into declining standards of literacy in Scottish schools.

    Weblogs Maxine 2009

  • Via The Bookseller blog and The Sunday Times: Ian Rankin, creator ofJohn Rebus, one of the UK's most popular fictional policemen, is to head a Labour commission into declining standards of literacy in Scottish schools.

    God, Rankin, violence and librarians Maxine 2008

  • Via The Bookseller blog and The Sunday Times: Ian Rankin, creator ofJohn Rebus, one of the UK's most popular fictional policemen, is to head a Labour commission into declining standards of literacy in Scottish schools.

    God, Rankin, violence and librarians Maxine 2008

  • Via The Bookseller blog and The Sunday Times: Ian Rankin, creator ofJohn Rebus, one of the UK's most popular fictional policemen, is to head a Labour commission into declining standards of literacy in Scottish schools.

    June 2008 Maxine 2008

  • It was made up of disgraced and cashiered policemen from the height of the Nazi Police state.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • So paying people do be, say, firemen or policemen is immoral also?

    Kidneys for Sale? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • I believe in policemen having the best, high powered rifles and automatic weapons so the debacles like the LA bank robbery never occur again.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Schmidt’s Shame 2005

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