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(UK, slang) A member of the police. Gammon UK, see Bacon. Gestapo Non-police-related slang term for door security (bouncers) in reference to their white armbands. Reference to the secret police of Nazi Germany, also called the Gestapo. Ghetto Bird US, derogatory, slang for a police helicopter patrolling over ghettos. Glina
Supergrass is a British slang term for an informant who turns King's evidence, often in return for protection and immunity from prosecution.In the British criminal world, police informants have been called "grasses" since the late 1930s, and the "super" prefix was coined by journalists in the early 1970s to describe those who witnessed against fellow criminals in a series of high-profile mass ...
The Flying Squad is a branch of the Serious and Organised Crime Command within London's Metropolitan Police Service. It is also known as the Robbery Squad, Specialist Crime Directorate 7, SC&O7 and SO7. It is nicknamed The Sweeney, an abbreviation of the Cockney rhyming slang "Sweeney Todd" (rhyming "squad" with "todd").
Both these terms are also used as metonyms for the UK's financial services industry, traditionally concentrated in the City of London. London "The Great Wen" – disparaging nickname coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological swelling on ...
In naval slang (where the place is referred to as Guz [76]), this is specifically a person from Plymouth. [75] Poole Poodles Portsmouth Pompey (collective, shared by the city, the naval base and the football club), Skates (pejorative, alluding to frustrated sailors raping skates) [77] Port Talbot Port Toileteers Potters Bar Pisspots, Bar-flys ...
A new tool will allow emergency workers to pinpoint the location of incidents across the UK using nicknames and colloquial names, Ordnance Survey (OS) has announced.
The English police: A political and social history (2014). Lyman, J.L. "The Metropolitan Police Act of 1829: An Analysis of Certain Events Influencing the Passage and Character of the Metropolitan Police Act in England," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science (1964) 55#1 pp. 141–154 online; Taylor, James.
More formal names also exist, such as the Chinese 聯合王國 Liánhéwángguó and Japanese 連合王国 Rengōōkoku literally meaning 'United Kingdom'. Separate words exist in all of these languages for each of the constituent parts of the UK, including England, although, as elsewhere, there is little awareness of correct usage.