traffic cops
- plural of traffic cop.
Example Sentences
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"It's a job creation scheme for retired traffic cops."
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
We tend to associate that kind of discretion with high-level officials like judges, but it’s the work of low-level functionaries too, from the DMV to traffic cops to bus drivers.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2022
There’s a lot of sitcom directors who are just traffic cops, who just move people around an parrot exactly what the writers say.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
The fates of the Hill and Jackson sites, however, are already determined: The two intersections where they have stood like roadblocks will simply be paved over, to the relief of motorists and traffic cops alike.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
So here he was, after we had pried him loose from his last predicament, perfectly optimistic under his fresh haircut, and thinking the traffic cops would not remember him.
From The Trail of the White Mule by Bower, B. M.
