Guardian Angels

plural noun

1. vigilante volunteers who patrol the underground railway in New York, London, and elsewhere, wearing red berets, to deter violent crime

Example Sentences

Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, founder of the anticrime organization the Guardian Angels, trails the two other candidates.

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Sliwa is the founder of the Guardian Angels, a crime-fighting organization.

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As the founder of the Guardian Angels, a New York City organization devoted to crime prevention, he seized the opportunity to connect with voters.

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In the latest polling Sliwa, a 71-year-old who founded the Guardian Angels vigilante group in 1979, is trailing a distant third with 15 percent in the most recent poll, behind Cuomo's 33 percent and Mamdani's 46 percent.

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He still wears the red beret from his Guardian Angels heyday because “it’s how people pick you out in a crowd.”

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