ecilop
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English
Etymology
Backslang for police, perhaps as seen reversed in a vehicle's wing mirror.
Pronunciation
Noun
ecilop (uncountable)
- (slang, rare) police
- Synonyms: esclop; see also Thesaurus:police
- 1964, Arnold Wall, The Jeweller's Window:
- I don't want, when I go to shop, / A mix-up with the ecilop.
- 2007, Richard De Nooy, Six Fang Marks and a Tetanus Shot, page 13:
- Two more patrol cars came howling into the street, dispersing the crowd. "So where's the ECILOP?"