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.

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."

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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