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Definition of Bobby
1. Noun. An informal term for a British policeman.
Definition of Bobby
1. n. A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
Definition of Bobby
1. Proper noun. (diminutive=Robert male given name). ¹
2. Proper noun. (diminutive=Roberta female given name). ¹
3. Noun. (British slang law enforcement) A police officer. ¹
4. Noun. (British slang) A railway signaller. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bobby
1. a police officer [n -BIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobby
Literary usage of Bobby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"CHAPTER XXXI bobby COON ARRIVES OLD MOTHER NATURE was just about to open school
when a slight noise up the Lone Little Path drew all eyes in that direction. ..."
2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Annotated by Thomas Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"(B—b—bobby!) and the road-car bobby drew.—T. €. ... whisky had interposed delay;
by that time however, Carrier, boxes and bobby, were all far on the road. ..."
3. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"and the road-car bobby drew.—T. €. ... fortune in the shape of bad weather or
whisky had interposed delay; by that time however, Carrier, boxes and bobby ..."
4. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"bobby Shafto 's fat and fair, Combing out his yellow hair, He 's my love for
evermore, — Pretty bobby Shaf to! 13 Bow, wow, wow, Whose dog art thou? ..."
5. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1869)
"bobby the canary-bird, and his new friend Cherry, sat side by side all night on the
... "I will be the first to take a bath," said bobby in his bird-speech, ..."
6. Self-help English Lessons by Julia Helen Wohlfarth, John Joseph Mahoney (1921)
"bobby TROTTER'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT It was New Year's Eve — the night before bobby
Trotter was to enter the fourth grade. On the back of a chair hung his new ..."
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