"esclop" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /slɒp/ Forms: esclops [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒp Etymology: Back slang for police. Head templates: {{en-noun}} esclop (plural esclops)
  1. (archaic, costermongers) The police. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Law enforcement Synonyms: ecilop, police, eslop Derived forms: slop Related terms: namesclop
    Sense id: en-esclop-en-noun-ArbpzIom Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 4 23 72 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 31 65

Alternative forms

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    {
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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          "langcode": "en",
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          "parents": [
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            "Emergency services",
            "Law",
            "Crime",
            "Public safety",
            "Justice",
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Public administration",
            "Security",
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            "Government",
            "Fundamental",
            "Politics"
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "slop"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1903 October 19, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, quoting Hogg, Quintin, “Quintin Hogg and the London Polytechnic”, in Missionary Review of the World, volume 26, number 16, page 734:",
          "text": "We had not been engaged in our reading very long when at the far end of the arch I noticed a twinkling light. \"Kool esclop!\" shouted one of the boys, at the same moment doucing the glim and bolting with his companion, leaving me in the dark with my upset beer bottle and my douced candle, forming a spectacle which seemed to arouse suspicion on the part of our friend the policeman, whose light it was that had appeared in the distance.",
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        "(archaic, costermongers) The police."
      ],
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          "word": "namesclop"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "word": "ecilop"
        },
        {
          "word": "police"
        },
        {
          "word": "eslop"
        }
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      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/slɒp/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "esclop"
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    "Pages with entries",
    "ca:Footwear",
    "ca:Littorinimorphs"
  ],
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    {
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back slang for police.",
  "forms": [
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒp",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒp/1 syllable",
        "en:Law enforcement"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1903 October 19, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, quoting Hogg, Quintin, “Quintin Hogg and the London Polytechnic”, in Missionary Review of the World, volume 26, number 16, page 734:",
          "text": "We had not been engaged in our reading very long when at the far end of the arch I noticed a twinkling light. \"Kool esclop!\" shouted one of the boys, at the same moment doucing the glim and bolting with his companion, leaving me in the dark with my upset beer bottle and my douced candle, forming a spectacle which seemed to arouse suspicion on the part of our friend the policeman, whose light it was that had appeared in the distance.",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "ecilop"
        },
        {
          "word": "police"
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    {
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      "word": "eslop"
    }
  ],
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}

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