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View synonyms for sleeping policeman
sleeping policeman
noun
Also: road hump. a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to deter motorists from speeding
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Pollux crouched next to a sleeping policeman.
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In a post on the Virgin website, the 66-year-old said: "I was heading down a hill towards Leverick Bay when it suddenly got really dark and I managed to hit a sleeping policeman hump in the road head on. "I really thought I was going to die.
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In the first episode, Gerald and his team set out to reduce the height of a sleeping policeman.
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The credits appear over the image of a sleeping policeman.
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Then we slips over into the yards below Riverside Drive, taking due care not to wake up no sleeping policeman on the way.
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