cops
nounUK /kɒps/ · US /kɑps/
1
plural of cop
2
Slang, With the The police, considered as a group entity.
- "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy:
- I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive on the scene1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan: