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  • noun Plural form of rozzer.

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Examples

  • I went to Iceland and asked for money, but the slag behind the till called the rozzers on me. on October 10, 2008 at 7: 45 am | Reply uniform

    Oh Dear! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Once upon a time, members of the thin blue line between ourselves and anarchy were disparagingly known as the rozzers or the pigs.

    The Guardian World News Patrick Barkham 2011

  • First the rozzers visited his posh home on crown land in Surrey to deliver the bad news about his criminal charge in relation to the alleged racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand, which he denies.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2012

  • And his insistence that Westminster “runs like clockwork” looked pretty silly a few days later when a guest at his reception was tear-gassed and arrested by the rozzers.

    House Points: Eric Pickles and MPs' expenses 2009

  • Though to be fair the local rozzers (including PCSOs) are friendly, albeit not that bright or active.

    Killer Free On Shopping Spree « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Your previous post showing a couple of gallant young rozzers arresting a young lady for “bad dancing” (possibly) caught my eye … and she caught my eye again when I saw her in the Medway Messenger (soft, strong and thoroughly absorbing).

    Back To The Shire At Last « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Another thoroughly inept West Ham centre-half, Neil Ruddock, got in trouble along with Trevor Sinclair in 1998: Razor met the rozzers when he was arrested after West Ham's fancy-dress party in – and you couldn't really script this – Romford.

    The Knowledge | Who were the first team to use a Christmas tree formation? | John Ashdown 2010

  • (Oh and a very Happy New year to you, and all rozzers on duty)

    Best Of 2008 « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • ✒ Legal history in the making at Brighton magistrates 'court today, where local activist Tony Greenstein has been arraigned by the rozzers under the Miscellaneous Provisions Act (1916) for running a stall last January for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which had a tin for donations to the cause.

    Diary 2010

  • There were 106 people maintaining vehicles one valet per Mondeo, perhaps and, including finance and IT, 624 rozzers doing no rozzering whatsoever!

    Andy Coulson-sized trap laid for David Cameron ? and he falls in Simon Hoggart 2010

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  • UK: cops.

    October 29, 2008