blue coats

 [bloo-koht]  

blue·coat

   [bloo-koht]
noun
1.
a person who wears a blue coat or uniform.
2.
a police officer.
3.
a soldier in the U.S. Army in earlier times.
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Origin:
1585–95; blue + coat

Related forms
blue·coat·ed, adjective
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Blue coats is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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blue boys definition


and blue coats
  1. n.
    the police. (See also men in blue.) : Four blue boys held me while a fifth slipped the cuffs on me. I ain't no pushover. , The blue coats are at the door, sounding sort of mad.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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