noun

• A police officer.

  More example sentences

  • ‘While the unions were gutted, many of the rozzers were said to be ‘made up’.’
  • ‘The rozzers showed up a split second later en masse (two cars and a van) and rang the loud neighbour's doorbell.’
  • ‘I knew it was only a matter of minutes before I was rumbled and some sort of motorway security or, worse, the rozzers themselves would be on the scene.’
  • ‘The rozzers may well have been professional in their approach, but we wonder how the circumstances would have allowed for ‘kindness and compassion’.’
  • ‘So, being upstanding citizens they immediately called the rozzers, fearing that a drink-driving offence was about to be committed.’
  • ‘The rozzers said that if the car isn't found in a couple of days it'll probably be locked up in a safe house until they either sell it on or dismantle it and use it for parts.’
  • ‘Back in Guayaquil, the local rozzers roll past, and don't bat an eyelid.’
  • ‘Apart from a few additional rozzers around the Palace, you'd never know anything was happening.’
  • ‘It started when a gang, peacefully nicking stuff, was rudely disturbed by French rozzers.’
  • ‘It does make you smell a bit funny, apparently, but the rozzers will never know.’

  Synonyms

  police officer, policeman, policewoman, PC, WPC, officer of the law, detective, DC