flic

Example Sentences

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"The best-dressed flic in France," as his colleagues called him, Tonnot made no secret of his own close connections with the underworld.

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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."

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A new flic comes on the beat�Lemmon playing a flatfoot so square that he even pays for the apples he filches.

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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.

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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