bulkies

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Obsolete; Slang

"[…] the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the "Bulkies.""
"In his study of the Belfast Town Police (nicknamed "the Bulkies"), Brian Griffin has argued that the force's sectarian reputation was more a matter of appearance […] than behavior."

Perhaps from their bulky figures.

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