bobby (BOB-ee)
noun British: A policeman.
After Sir Robert Peel, who was Great Britain’s Home Secretary when the 1828 Metropolitan Police Act was passed.
“The fish and chip shop may be as ‘Truly British’ as the bobbies patrolling in their pointed black helmets, but the tidy streets, royalist sentiments and low crime rate hark back to an era that faded away decades ago in Britain.”
—New York Times
“The fish and chip shop may be as ‘Truly British’ as the bobbies patrolling in their pointed black helmets, but the tidy streets, royalist sentiments and low crime rate hark back to an era that faded away decades ago in Britain.”
—New York Times
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