bluecoat

noun

Definition of bluecoatnext
as in officer

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  1. officer
  2. policeman
  3. constable
  4. copper
  5. cop
  6. bobby
  7. trooper
  8. gendarme
Noun
  • Members of the Montreal City Police Department found the weapon, a Glock 26, on August 30, 2024, when officers raided a home in relation to a kidnapping investigation, court records show.
    — Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Banks hired more loan officers, credit analysts, personal bankers, and fraud and risk specialists.
    — Adam Schickling, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of officer
Noun
  • In 2022, an ex-policeman armed with a gun and knife stormed into a nursery in the country's north and murdered 24 children and 12 adults in one of Thailand's deadliest massacres.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • People began rioting in Los Angeles’ predominantly Black Watts neighborhood after a crowd watched White policemen forcefully subdue a Black man.
    — USA Today, USA Today, 28 July 2026
Definition of policeman
Noun
  • Thompson alerted a town administrator and special constable named Sherise Fountain, who went to investigate.
    — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities offered their sympathies to McKnight’s family, everyone at the constable’s office, and those who knew and loved him.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of constable
Noun
  • The instrument was one of two small, ornate trumpets — one silver, the other thought to be bronze or copper — found among Tutankhamun’s treasures over a decade and a half earlier.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Giving copper a twist The researchers fabricated electrodes with helical copper structures via electrodeposition using a chiral templating reagent.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of copper
Noun
  • Bad cops are not being fired, and good cops who may be wrongfully accused are stuck in professional purgatory.
    — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • On Monday, 21-year-old Javid Edwin, accompanied by a lawyer, surrendered at the 50th Precinct stationhouse and was charged with murder, manslaughter and weapon possession, cops said.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of cop
Noun
  • Indeed, the iconic image of the unarmed British bobby was a product of this trust.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2026
  • The great theme of the recent Tory conference was providing reassurance—putting more bobbies on the beat, building more hospitals, raising the minimum wage and otherwise spraying money all over the place.
    — The Economist, The Economist, 12 Oct. 2019
Definition of bobby
Noun
  • Records from that time indicated state troopers found Farinacci sitting on a park bench, out of breath, the affidavit reads.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The passenger, Kimbrew Horton, 29, of Chicago, also got out of the vehicle and tried to run away, but another trooper who arrived at the scene caught him.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of trooper
Noun
  • Another 170 gendarmes, or law enforcement officers, have also been dispatched to the region to support the firefighting effort.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • Set in the lush forests and fields of northeastern France, this excitingly offbeat first feature from Sarah Arnold depicts a gory factional war between hunters and farmers, haves and have-nots, with one depressed fish-out-of-water gendarme caught in the middle.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Definition of gendarme
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“Bluecoat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bluecoat. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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