Thesaurus:police

Thesaurus

police

English

Noun

Sense: a civil force granted the legal authority to enforce the law and maintain public order

Synonyms

• 5-O
• Babylon (Jamaica, Toronto, UK)
• bacon
• Big Blue Machine
• boydem (Toronto & UK)
• constabulary
• dibble (UK)
• donut patrol (US)
• ducks and geese (UK, Cockney rhyming slang)
• ecilop (UK, backslang)
• esclop (UK, backslang)
• feds
• filth
• five-o
• fuzz
• garda (Irish)
• gardai (Irish)
• gendarmerie
• heat
• law    [⇒ thesaurus]
• monarch (Australia)
• Old Bill (UK)
• piglice
• plod (UK)
• po-po (US & HK)
• police
• police department
• police force
• police service
• polis (UK)
• thin blue line (colloquial)
• any plural synonym of police officer

Hyponyms

• Gardai
• LAPD
• Met
• NYPD
• RCMP
• Scotland Yard
• Sûreté
•   —
• CID
• CSI
• flying squad
• SOCO
• Special Branch
• SWAT

Meronyms

• police officer    [⇒ thesaurus]
• police vehicle    [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• charpering carsey (UK, Polari)
• cop shop (UK & Commonwealth, slang)
• nick (UK, slang)
• police station
• precinct (US)

Metonyms

• authority
• law    [⇒ thesaurus]
• power    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• beat
• manor (UK, slang)
• patch (UK, slang)
• precinct (US)

See also

• long arm of the law

Further reading

• “965. jurisdiction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “police” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.