"Bulkies" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from their bulky figures.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "Bulkies pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Irish Builder and Engineer, volume 33, page 122",
          "text": "[…] the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the \"Bulkies.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Sean Farrell, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, page 253",
          "text": "In his study of the Belfast Town Police (nicknamed \"the Bulkies\"), Brian Griffin has argued that the force's sectarian reputation was more a matter of appearance […] than behavior.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The police."
      ],
      "id": "en-Bulkies-en-noun-ArbpzIom",
      "links": [
        [
          "police",
          "police"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, slang, obsolete) The police."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "obsolete",
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bulkies"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from their bulky figures.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "Bulkies pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Irish Builder and Engineer, volume 33, page 122",
          "text": "[…] the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the \"Bulkies.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Sean Farrell, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, page 253",
          "text": "In his study of the Belfast Town Police (nicknamed \"the Bulkies\"), Brian Griffin has argued that the force's sectarian reputation was more a matter of appearance […] than behavior.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The police."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "police",
          "police"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, slang, obsolete) The police."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "obsolete",
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bulkies"
}