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Scotland Yard
noun
1.
a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard).
2.
the metropolitan police of London, especially the branch engaged in crime detection.
Origin:
1860–65
1860–65
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Scotland Yard
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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| Scotland Yard | |
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| Official name: New Scotland Yard the headquarters of the police force of metropolitan London, controlled directly by the British Home Office and hence having certain national responsibilities | |
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Word Origin & History
Scotland Yard
used allusively for "London Metropolitan Police," 1864, from name of short street off Whitehall, London; from 1829 to 1890 headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Force, hence, the force itself, especially the detective branch. After 1890, located in "New Scotland Yard."
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