labdick
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Lothian and Borders Police + dick.
Noun[edit]
labdick (plural labdicks)
- (dialect, Edinburgh) policeman
- 1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, page 333:
- Begbie, realising that they are well on their way and have not been intercepted by the Lothian and Borders Constabulary, the labdicks, is more relaxed.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)