traffic cop

noun

: a police officer who directs traffic or gives fines to people who break traffic laws

Examples of traffic cop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The blockading country's navy must essentially pull over ships, like a traffic cop at sea. — Scott Neuman, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026

The show began with a pre-recorded segment echoing Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho that featured Sam Elliott as an off-putting traffic cop. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026

The company twisted the knife with Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI’s slop, and Altman fired back, sniping that Anthropic wanted to be the traffic cop of AI. — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026

Because the Dectravalve kept temperatures low and uniform—and the battery management system didn’t need to play energy traffic cop and slow charging to a crawl to avoid overheating—charging time was cut by roughly 60 percent. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for traffic cop

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