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sleeping policeman

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noun

  1. Also: road hump.  a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to deter motorists from speeding

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The credits appear over the image of a sleeping policeman.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2010

Then we slips over into the yards below Riverside Drive, taking due care not to wake up no sleeping policeman on the way.

From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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