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

Spellacy aims for Patch to be a trustworthy traffic cop on the carbon reduction highway. —Hank Tucker, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

Seeing no other option, the city hired a traffic cop and put the signs up for sale. —Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023

Tana may carry the film’s finale, but its epiphanies are modest, its incidents — a run-in with a traffic cop, a breath of romance with a Dallas dreamboat — taken casually in stride, part of a larger whole that spans real-life portraiture and quoted Mary Oliver poetry. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 July 2023

The Rules Committee of the House of Representatives has been called many things: traffic cop, the Speaker’s committee, handmaiden of the Speaker. —E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023

Adrian Houser got the start and assumed the role of traffic cop from the outset, allowing at least one batter to reach base in all five of his innings of work. —Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2023

And many of the traffic cop molecules that direct the growth of neurons in these worms do the same in humans. —R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023

But soon find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny (Heughan) and his wife, glamorous yoga instructor Becka (De Gouw). —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023

At another point in the trailer, Renfield and Awkwafina, who plays a traffic cop, set about to take on Dracula in a blood-and-guts confrontation. —Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023