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  List of slang terms for police vehicles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here is a list of slang terms for law enforcement vehicles and other emergency vehicles:
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Boxer shorts (in greek slang) because there are always 2 testicles inside
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_slang_terms_for_police_vehicles   (118 words)

  
 Policing in the United Kingdom - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The new Metropolitan Police, founded on September 29, was depersonalised, bureaucratic and hierarchical, with the new police constables instructed to prevent crime and pursue offenders.
However in contrast to the military gendarmerie forces of continental Europe, the British police, partly to counter public fears and objections concerning armed enforcers, were clearly civilian and their armament was initially limited to the truncheon.
A number of recent cases in which the police have intervened in matters of free speech have also given rise to allegations that the police are in danger of becomming thought police.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/British_Police   (3261 words)

  
 UNODC - Glossary of Money-Laundering Terms
The term is interchangeably used with the term hundi, which has the meanings "cheque" or "bill of exchange" and reffers to a means of transferring money based on trust or an appropriate reference.
The terms are generally used as a measure of an institution's financial health, the integrity of its operations, and its ability to remain financially viable.
It is the duty of the trustees to administer the trust in accordance with the terms of the trust deed and the general law.
www.unodc.org /unodc/money_laundering_glossary.html   (8400 words)

  
 Mail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the discovery of new communicating systems and vehicles, mail, though retaining a certain charm, lost favour to more quickly connecting systems such as the telephone, and remained as a vehicle for commercial or formal documents.
These vehicles commonly use a mechanical or electro-mechanical standardised writing (typing), that on the one hand makes for more efficient communication, while on the other hand makes impossible characteristics and practices that traditionally were in conventional mail, such as calligraphy.
The senders of these messages sometimes purchase lists of addresses (which are sometimes targeted towards certain demographics) and then send letters advertising their product or service to all recipients.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mail   (3194 words)

  
 The Word on The Streets
From the police practice of carrying a shotgun in the police cruiser with a full magazine but with an empty chamber, requiring the officer to "rack the slide" before bringing the shotgun to bare.
From an old theatrical term for a piece of scenery, an actor in a braindance recording who is not wired for braindance, but merely forms part of the background for a scene.
Derogatory slang term for anyone with exotic skin, cranial, or other animalistic anatomical modifications, especially when the individual uses the feature(s) in conjunction with a deviant sexual practice.
www.ssgfx.com /CP2020/slang   (10029 words)

  
 Publicola: Coming To Terms With Gun Control Archives
Captain William Evans is the head of Boston Police Department's District 14.
Police sales are probably a bit more lucrative but I'd wager that there aren't enough to make up for a loss of the civilian market.
There were other things worth mentioning; the spreading of news whenever a gun owner was mistreated by police; whenever important court cases came up as well as analysis of their outcomes.
publicola.mu.nu /archives/056569.php   (16452 words)

  
 American English
A composite of bitumen (a tarry substance) and gravel used for surfacing/paving roads etc. In American usage "tarmac" is used to refer to surface of airport runways etc. A macadamised road is one with a surface of carefully graded stones first devised by John Macadam in the early 19th century.
Both terms are proprietary and refer to a hard round white mint, sometimes fruit flavoured, with a hole in the middle.
When a faster vehicle passes a slower one travelling in the same direction, especially when the manouevre involves crossing into a lane normally used by vehicles travelling in the other direction.
www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html   (12175 words)

  
 Category:Emergency vehicles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This category lists different types of vehicles used to deal with emergency situiations.
Current models of police cars used in the US
This page was last modified 01:51, 20 March 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Emergency_vehicles   (68 words)

  
 The Source: Slang Dictionary
Term used to imply that the person either has a nickel bag of weed to contribute, or is willing to pitch in 5 dollars toward the purchase of marijuana.
a term used to suggest to a friend or otherwise to not be a wuss about a certain issue.
Also “piece of a**” (posterior) A derogatory term for a female, usually one being used for sexual favor, with derogatory intonations of a lack of emotion.
www.thesource4ym.com /teenlingo/index.asp   (5158 words)

  
 DIRELAND: WHY IS FRANCE BURNING? The rebellion of a lost generation
To apply this term to young human beings and proffer it as a strategy is a verbally fascist insult and, as a policy proposed by an Interior Minister, is about as close as one can get to hollering "ethnic cleansing" without actually saying so.
Please notice the use of the term judeoplutocraty, it is one of the rare polysillabic used by this kind of low-level revisionnist.
But only last summer she herself was a victim of the brutal, irrational policing Sarkozy uses to promote himself and whatever agenda he shares with his friends in America and Israel: http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=318729.
direland.typepad.com /direland/2005/11/why_is_france_b.html   (11224 words)

  
 SBF Glossary: _p, P_ to pay toilets
In some contexts, the term is distinguished from a ``team secretary'' who does secretarial work for more than one boss; in others it refers to a higher level of competence and responsibility, even though the PA may answer to a group.
In contrast, the same vehicle that is a paddy wagon on the day of the arrests is called the prison van or police van when it ferries prisoners to and from court, or out of prison.
It also tends to be focused on less frivolous lists, or at least ones that are not of extremely parochial interest, and it also has an extremely distinguished history, having been maintained for a number of years by the net.god Spaf.
www.plexoft.com /SBF/P.html   (11076 words)

  
 Online Slang Dictionary - Browse
This is a term of derision, suggesting a weak automobile.
A term of derision, typically used to dismiss someone one is too closed-minded to accept.
Origin: term is an acronym for "fucked up beyond all recognition." ("That project is totally fubar.") Submitted by Wayne C., San Mateo, CA, USA, 23-02-1998.
www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~wrader/slang/f.html   (1323 words)

  
 Vietnam Veteran's Terminology and Slang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The term "Charlie" was both the phonetic alphabetization of the "C" in C-rations and signified the enemy or enemy activity.
This term was used in lieu of R&R. ILLUM: illumination.
This term's footnoted in one of the major books on Khe Sahn and was in common use in I Corps (1/67-7/68).
grunt.space.swri.edu /glossary.htm   (12166 words)

  
 Police Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As a police officer, you have to handle situations like these.
Police reprimands and warnings replace cautions for young offenders.
The New Zealand Police are committed to the Treaty of Waitangi and acknowledge Maori as Tangata Whenua (people of the land).
www.dejazebra.tigersbreath.com /police.htm   (1078 words)

  
 ArniesAirsoft: Glossary of Airsoft Terms
Some terms in the list are have bases in military or law enforcement, but as they pertain directly to airsoft, they have been included.
The term 'Field-Strippable' refers to a gun that can be taken apart without tools at any time, and comes from the requirement that soldiers be able to strip their weapons down in the field.
In real terms, this device can more than double the effective range of a gun, even though the projectile is actually moving more slowly through the air.
www.arniesairsoft.co.uk /?filnavn=/articles/r22_newbie/terms.html   (5752 words)

  
 theLawShack.com - Police Codes
C.H.P. when using the police radio some letters sound very much alike, such as "D" and "E" "B" and "C" and so on.
there are two common versions of the phonetic alphabet, the one used most commonly in law enforcement is listed first, and then the one commonly used by military is listed second.
When an officer calls for a code 9 that basically a call for assistance, or to come watch his back When an officer calls for an 11-99 that means he/she is in immediate danger of being killed or having great injury inflicted upon them.
www.thelawshack.com /Police_Codes.html   (772 words)

  
 Issue of September 3, 2004
At the banal end of the scale, the very first message I received from the list concerned the word "underlay," which, as one might suspect, is defined as something that is placed under something else, often to raise that something else to a desired level.
The use of his first name as a generic, slang term for a detective from the early 1900s is not unlikely.
Underlying the term is the supposition (especially popular among urban sophisticates) that each small country village must have one exceptionally simple resident who serves as the butt of jokes and provides endless amusement for the townsfolk.
www.word-detective.com /090304.html   (6123 words)

  
 Free Police Vehicles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Police vehicles available to departments and to the general public.
A police car, police cruiser, squad car, or patrol car is a vehicle used by police
An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on.
www.information-online91.info /free-police-vehicles.html   (276 words)

  
 Mail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Another important postal service was created in the Islamic world by the caliph Moàvia; the service was called berid, by the name of the towers that were built in order to protect the roads by which couriers travelled.
After the discovery of new communicating systems and vehicles, mail lost most of its special charm in favour of more quickly connecting systems such as the telephone, and remained as a vehicle for commercial or formal documents.
For some postal services the sale of stamps to collectors who will never use them is a significant source of revenue.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mail.html   (2815 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He wrote, "Hemp flourishes even to rankness, we do not want for cordage." Then he went on to list the other essentials necessary for war with the British navy; cannons, gunpowder, etc. From 70-90% of all rope, twine, and cordage was made from hemp until 1937.
Even the DEA itself admits that 94 to 97 percent of all marijuana/hemp plants that have been seized and destroyed since the 1960s were growing completely wild and could not have been smoked as marijuana.
Meanwhile, the word "hem" was discarded and "cannabis," the scientific term, was ignored and buried.
www.hemp4fuel.com /nontesters/hemp4fuel/emperor.txt   (18177 words)

  
 Glossary of Common Fire Fighting Terms
A chief’s vehicle is generally NOT considered apparatus although some departments may refer to it as such.
Some police and even some fire departments do use a system of number codes in an effort to talk privately or quickly on the radio.
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www.riotacts.com /fire/glossary.html   (4960 words)

  
 FF5 Worldbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The term is not usually used in connection with the early "cut and cover" lines, such as the Metropolitan Railway and Circle Line, but is reserved for circular tunnels excavated at depth by the "moving shield" method.
Each listing begins with the name of the area and the county in which it is found; if the county is London or the City, it is already part of the town in 1900.
The term "Cockney" (derived from a Middle Ages word for "townsman") has changed its meaning many times; strictly speaking it should mean a resident of the City of London, not of the East End, but somehow it migrated East with the poorest residents of London.
www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff5/worldbk5.htm   (19551 words)

  
 Big Brother is watching: Not in 1984 but in 2002 | Samizdata.net
Britain is already a Police State in so far as the means for total repression are already well and truly in place.
To see the term in use, follow this link to the UK Parliament's own website (do a 'find' once you are at the page for 'beak' to see where the phrase is used).
The police and the landlords of large shopping centres have a legitimate reason to watch out for crime and anybody not committing a crime has nothing to fear from being observed.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/002285.html   (10598 words)

  
 American slang information from Answerbag
The term kick it means that someone is going to hang out and spendtime with their friends and shit like that.
The popular etymology says that the term derives from such individuals having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime.
As far as American slang is concerned, the term "pee" is the equivalent to the verb to urinate.
www.answerbag.com /c_view.php/1719   (5966 words)

  
 NewsPro Archive
Of course an important note to this might be that until the mid 1970s the Columbus Police department used their vans, painted fl and white at the time, to transport coroner's cases.
The term could have jumped references from police to funeral sometime during this period.
Yes, we realize the speaker here is using the notion of jumbledness as an abusive, not necessarily literal term, but he invests it with a pernicious sense that goes far beyond a simple hodgepodge.
www.thediscouragingword.com /archives/arc7.shtml   (7047 words)

  
 In Search of Gordon Cooper's UFOs
But in March 1978, the same Gordon Cooper addressed a UN committee on somebody else's space vehicles: aliens from space were flying to Earth on exploration voyages of their own.
Since there were about twenty five aircraft per squadron and the 525th shared the base with the 526th and the 527th, there might have been upwards of a hundred additional witnesses involved, not to mention the inhabitants of the large city nearby..
As a last effort, I wrote letters to two dozen people whose names were listed in a special directory published by the reunion committee and who had been contemporaries of Cooper in the 525th.
www.zip.com.au /~psmith/cooper.html   (6843 words)

  
 Readerman's list of books read   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I was put off at first by the length and a bit by the dialect of the characters, but I soon slipped smoothly into the world of Jim, Doyler, and their families, watching the interplay of class, religion, and politics in the lives of the large ensemble of characters.
The story is set in the 1940s, and Hoff is careful to sprinkle vintage slang terms and vehicles throughout the text.
The author's background in psychology leads him to a list that is heavy on mental and spiritual concepts, and he tends to have a somewhat inflated opinion of the importance of his work for society, but these are forgiveable traits.
www.danchan.com /weblog/readerman   (5290 words)

  
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 The Grins Mailing List Achives
Be sure to always slow down to a near stop to look at the twisted vehicles and bloody puddles of the innocent locals who have had "encounters" with driving tourists.
He was about to pop, and would have promised anything, so he agreed to her terms.
The police report stated that he was traveling 45 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone and had run a stop sign, all with a man clinging onto the hood of his car.
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 Drug Free AZ :: Slang Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Note: Due to the large number of street/slang names, this list is divided into several pages to keep the download time to a minimum.
For a complete list of street/slang terms in PDF format, click here.
Vehicles with secret compartments used to conceal drugs
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 Transwiki:List of slang terms for police vehicles - Wiktionary
Transwiki:List of slang terms for police vehicles - Wiktionary
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