See bent copper on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From bent (“not straight, corrupt, dishonest”) + copper (“policeman”), a variant of cop. It could also be a pun taken from a bent copper coin.", "forms": [ { "form": "bent coppers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "bent copper (plural bent coppers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Law enforcement", "orig": "en:Law enforcement", "parents": [ "Crime prevention", "Emergency services", "Law", "Crime", "Public safety", "Justice", "Criminal law", "Society", "Public administration", "Security", "All topics", "Government", "Fundamental", "Politics" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2007, Graham Johnson, Druglord, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:", "text": "Onay remembered that he had placed 40 kilos at the bottom of his wardrobe. That meant approximately three and a half kilos had disappeared during the police raid. Bulent kept quiet but the officers eventually found out and a bent copper was later blamed for the alleged theft.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016 April 28, “Getting to the Truth”, in Line of Duty, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Gill Biggeloe (Polly Walker), archived from the original on 2021-05-17:", "text": "Anticorruption is a double-edged sword. We need to find just enough bent coppers to avoid accusations of a cover-up, but not so many that the public starts to wonder if the police can be trusted.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2019, Alan Jacobs, Me? I Kill People, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 298:", "text": "He had always been a bent copper. He had joined the police force with the intention of being a bent copper. In that, he had been eminently successful.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A corrupt police officer." ], "id": "en-bent_copper-en-noun-SFL6FcRU", "links": [ [ "law enforcement", "law enforcement" ], [ "corrupt", "corrupt" ], [ "police officer", "police officer" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, informal, law enforcement) A corrupt police officer." ], "tags": [ "UK", "informal" ], "topics": [ "government", "law-enforcement" ] } ], "word": "bent copper" }
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