"hot pencil" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hot pencils [plural]
Etymology: A police officer uses a pencil to write tickets, which would get warm if used a lot due to friction. Head templates: {{en-noun}} hot pencil (plural hot pencils)
  1. (law enforcement slang) A police officer who writes many tickets. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Law enforcement, People
    Sense id: en-hot_pencil-en-noun-PSizuuFr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: government, law-enforcement

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "2004, San Diego Magazine, page 60:",
          "text": "He was a hot pencil who kept CHP brass happy by writing more tickets than anybody. Secretly, he was using his highly polished Badge 861 1 to stalk young women for weird, sexually tinged power games.",
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          "ref": "2011, Joseph \"Champagne Joe\" Militello, Canister Of Evil, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 34:",
          "text": "From what he could ascertain, he was at least as good or even better as a police detective and as a partner than Charga ever was or could ever be. “he was more than a hot pencil when he was in uniform.” Dunne continued, “Did you know ...",
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        {
          "ref": "2020, Tom Barker, Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 104:",
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        "(law enforcement slang) A police officer who writes many tickets."
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