wallopers

wallopers
n pl
British
police officers. A nickname from the 1950s, now obsolete in Britain but occasionally heard in Australia.
► 'Please, please Sid. You'll have the wal-lopers in here in a minute.' (Hancock's Half Hour,
British comedy series, October 1959)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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