cops and robbers

noun

: a children's game in which the players imitate the way police chase and shoot at criminals in movies, on television, etc.

Examples of cops and robbers in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Breakpoint plays like a furiously intense game of cops and robbers; these hikes set the pulse racing. — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 9 July 2025

The most popular form of GTA RP is a cops and robbers kind of vibe, and McClellaland loves to drop into an active crime scene and act like a blissfully unaware (and doggedly responsible) delivery driver. — Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025

His father was a collector for a jewelry store, and Segedin later recalled his boyhood as pleasant and typical, one of flying model airplanes and playing cops and robbers while also dodging threats from larger, tougher kids. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025

Grown men running around a Long Island farm playing cops and robbers until the sun went down. — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024

Rhymes for cops and robbers

• jobbers