flic
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They dispersed only after a judge reversed a lower-court ruling and freed 19-year-old Gilles Guiot, who had been jailed on flimsy charges of striking a flic during an earlier demonstration.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The best-dressed flic in France," as his colleagues called him, Tonnot made no secret of his own close connections with the underworld.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bey's light automatic flic flic flicked its excitement and dust and dirt enveloped the wall facing Crawford.
From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack
On the one hand, there's the Métro; on the other, there's the flic; while here, you must admit, am I, as large as life and very much on the job!
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph
Cara Black has studied Buddhism in India, taught English in Japan, and visits Paris at least twice a year with notebook in hand, to explore and to interview les flics about crime and procedure.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2022
Publishers are scouring the world for the next crime wave: a few summers hence we may all have forgotten about Oslo and Ystad, and be reading about les flics in Paris and Lyon instead.
From Economist ● Aug. 30, 2012
There has, alas, been no word on whether a half-smoked Gauloise and small glass of Ricard were left at the scene to taunt les flics.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2010
And when she approached them directly in her faltering French, most Paris flics simply laughed in her face.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deneuve learned from the French flics how to shoot a revolver.
From Time Magazine Archive
