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patrolman
/ əˈٰəʊə /
noun
a man, esp a policeman, who patrols a certain area
a man employed to patrol an area to help motorists in difficulty
Gender Note
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of patrolman1
Example Sentences
County Sheriff’s Department have done the heavy lifting – keeping control with helicopters, hundreds of patrolmen on foot and hundreds of patrol cars.
“They didn’t care about me or my daughter or those poor highway patrolmen. They ruined their lives. They were after Frank,” she said.
Asked how he’d like to be remembered, Wambaugh summed it up with the no-nonsense crispness of a patrolman handing out a speeding ticket.
They heard how the highway patrolman told Ms. Hamer, “We are going to make you wish you was dead.”
Ronald Reagan called in more than 2,000 National Guard troops and hundreds of highway patrolmen, who descended on campus with weapons.
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