Peeler

/ˈpiːlɚ/ · noun

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer.
2. One who peels.
3. A device for peeling fruit or vegetables.
4. Something to be peeled.
5. Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.
6. (surfing) An ideal wave.
7. (horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
8. Someone who breaks horses.

Example Sentences

A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show; He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go. And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun— 'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."

I’d covered pretty nearly two miles before I came across a peeler, — and when I did the man was cracked — and he thought me mad, or drunk, or both. By the time I’d got myself within nodding distance of being run in for obstructing the police in the execution of their duty, […] Holt was out of sight.

I was standin' there and the car came down the street with the two peelers comin' after them and I'm standin' here with [my son] in my arms.

How do you fight back to get your right back to walk free down the street when your name and address singles you out for every Peeler on the beat?

Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.

It was Jem and Georgie that was in mortal danger, true, but there was not one of us that wanted the peelers asking us questions.

According to another superstition, the longer the peel, the longer the peeler's life would be.

To prepare the vignette, the limits of all control areas are scribed as thin lines on one sheet of coated plastic, and a mask is prepared for each of the two colors on plastic sheets with a peeler coating.

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• peelers
• Peeler

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