good-cop, bad-cop
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He was acting mean and ugly, but I had seen enough movies to figure he was playing good-cop, bad-cop."
- "THE WHITE HOUSE PLAYS GOOD-COP, BAD-COP WITH GREENSPAN"
- "The State Department appears to be playing “good-cop, bad-cop,” casting Helms as the heavy and limiting its own public criticism of Chamorro, while privately using the aid as a stick to beat concessions out of her."
- "I am not interested in being one side or other’s hero or villain. I am not playing ‘good-cop, bad-cop’."
- "In the “good-cop, bad-cop” scenario, the good cop puts himself on the side of the suspect, supposedly working against his own bad-cop partner, and forges a bond that eventually works against the suspect’s interests."
- "Senior sources say this could be a play of some good old-fashioned good-cop, bad-cop routine between India and the US, particularly on Pakistan."