BOBBY Definition & Meaning

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bobby

[ bob-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

British Informal.

plural bobbies.

a policeman.

Bobby

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[ bob-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a first name, often a form of Robert or Roberta.

bobby

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noun

informal.
a British policeman

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of bobby¹

1835–45; special use of Bobby, for Sir Robert Peel, who set up the Metropolitan Police system of London in 1828

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of bobby¹

C19: from Bobby after Sir Robert Peel , who, as Home Secretary, set up the Metropolitan Police Force in 1828

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He met his wife, Mary Lou, in 1956, brunette and pretty, wearing bobby socks at a fraternity mixer at Michigan State.

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“Tight as a drum”, was how the local beat bobby described the people on his patch.

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"Maybe it needs to go back to more bobbies on the beat, panda cars driving around and just keeping an eye on things - because this person, he's still around."

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She found a lot of rusty bobby pins, empty paper cups, and dust bunnies.

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But the report finds bobbies who should be on the beat are behind desks, backfilling for civilian support staff who have been stripped out.

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