pa·trol·man

[puh-trohl-muhn]
noun, plural pa·trol·men.
1.
a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
2.
a person who patrols.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; patrol + -man


See -man.
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patrolman (pəˈtrəʊlmən) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -men
1.  chiefly (US) a man, esp a policeman, who patrols a certain area
2.  (Brit) a man employed to patrol an area to help motorists in difficulty

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Patrolman is always a great word to know.
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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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.
Example sentences
The patrolman repeated the request a couple of times before appellant complied.
Neither patrolman or bosses, are able to give you a strait answer as to what is wrong with the department.
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