brother-officer

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brother-officer (plural brother-officers)

  1. A fellow police officer
    • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
      A brother-officer, evidently taking two country cousins round London, nodded resignedly; a woman at whose house he had danced several times smiled at him.