Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gravel road cop

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables: grav-el road- -cop
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Canadian usage; Slang

Etymology

A humorous reinterpretation of French GRC (Gendarmerie Royale du Canada), in reference to the remote rural areas where such people often work.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: GRC

Usage

Inflected Forms

gravel road cops (plural)

Synonyms

Mountie Queen's cowboy

Questions

What does gravel road cop mean?: An officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Where does gravel road cop come from?: It is traced to French.

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