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Wiktionary
- n. idiomatic A speed bump.
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sleeping policeman’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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TRAN - automobile technology advancem...
ACC, ATV, ATC, ZEV, RFID, OBD, wiring, VMS, wastegate, tumble, toll lane, swirl and 175 more...
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Cops
police, cops, federales, five-o, pigs, g-man, swat, chips, atf, coppers, fuzz, boys in blue and 84 more...
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Collocative Phrases
crack of dawn, catchment area, abortive efforts, consolidated text, unsung hero, stressful surreal..., opening gambit, contingency plan, penal colony, baby bump, gut reaction, living memory and 176 more...
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Chad-)'s Words
hubris, curmudgeon, vilipend, fundament, tinny, sleeping policeman, orthoepist, grubstake, logorrhea, unprotected sleep, gander, yellow journalism and 18 more...
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4Q2009
ya es hora. hagas..., muckender, runagate, sleeping policeman, slot walking, silver mining, escarpment, gabion, isostasy, permeable groin, riprap, tombolo and 6 more...
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Misterpolly's Words
soundbite, quondam, irredentist, new york second, tanorexia, chindia, globesity, man flu, password fatigue, sublunary, sleeping policeman, fibonacci sequence and 7 more...
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bilby "The road inside the College grounds was asphalted and in good condition. There were 'sleeping policemen' every fifty yards, humps right across the road to cut down the speed of cars."
- 'Windfall', Desmond Bagley. Jan 6, 2008