John Hop

British

noun

slang a policeman

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Etymology

Origin of John Hop

rhyming slang for _cop ¹

Example Sentences

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“I know how to handle him. I just keep remindin him to separate: Rebecca’s not one of them researchers, she’s not working for John Hop- kin. She workin for herself. He kept sayin, ‘I’m all right, I won’t do nothing crazy.’

From Literature

There was no Caliban of a John Hop to point out the impropriety of our appearance on a public road in pyjamas and carpet slippers, and we walked on up Hunter's Hill way, Lane Cove glimmering through the trees on one side and the sweet-scented brush on the other.

From Project Gutenberg

"No Skill or Special Knowledge Required" is the second part of the four-part John Hop kins' drama, Talking to a Stranger, which relates the events leading to a suicide through the eyes of the dead woman's fam ily.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Ern Swanson is going to be the captain,” said John Hop, with his ingratiating Oriental smile.

From Project Gutenberg

"Lor love yeh, ole John Hop," sez I, "yiv buried me in debt."

From Project Gutenberg

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