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Heya people, bringing back this thread. 🙃
Can anyone think of times in fiction/whatever where police officers, government officials, or just the authorities in general are referred to with a unique term or nickname? For example, calling lawyers Suits, or the “Ten Men” in Mysterious Benedict Society.
I already have an idea, but I would love some prompts to jostle my brain. They don’t have to be original, just things you’ve already seen.
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In Mistborn there’s the Garrison and the Constable, in Marvel there’s Shield, the Blade Runners in blade runner, the Nightwatch, the Aurors, Officers of God, are ones I’ve found.
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Irl, I’m pretty sure gangsters used to call the police the Fuzz. At least in the UK… probably not here in America, lol.
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(Actually, maybe it was in the US….)
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@whalekeeper I don’t remember any in specific…..
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@whalekeeper Can’t think of any nicknames other than coppers or boys in blue, but this has somehow sent me down a research rabbit hole on different types of slang XD I think I’m going to make a new character who uses Cockney rhyming slang
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I’ll tell you if I think of anything else tho
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