The police; originally “ecilop.”
“I dragged you in here and saved you,
And sent out a gal for the slops;
Ha! theyʹre acominʹ sir! Listen!
The noise and the shoutinʹ stops.”
Sims: Ballads of Babylon (The Matron’s Story).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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