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"(1844) De Bobby, surnom de l’ancien Premier Ministre Robert Peel (1788-1850), responsable de la création de ce corps dont les membres furent familièrement appelés Bobby’s boys. Son nom de famille a donné peeler (« policier »)."
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"Voir police pour plusieurs quasi-synonymes argotiques."
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Anglais dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-20 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (87ad358 and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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