harman
English
Noun
harman (plural harmans)
- (obsolete, thieves' cant) A policeman.
- 1724, “Frisky Moll's Song”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 41:
- I Frisky Moll, with my rum coll, / Wou'd Grub in a bowzing ken; / But ere for the scran he had tipt the cole, / The Harman he came in.
- 1765, “A Song in High Life”, in The Merry Medley, volume 1, London: W. Hoggard, page 35:
- I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.
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Synonyms
- harman-beck, nuthook, PC Plod; see also Thesaurus:police officer
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