police work police investigation | the investigation of criminal activities |
guerrilla theater street theater | dramatization of a social issue, enacted outside in a park or on the street |
police action | a local military action without declaration of war, against violators of international peace and order |
German shepherd German shepherd dog German police dog alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
police dog | any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking |
alley alleyway back street | a narrow street with walls on both sides |
barrel organ grind organ hand organ hurdy gurdy hurdy-gurdy street organ | a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
cross street | a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it |
cruiser police cruiser patrol car police car prowl car squad car | a car in which policemen cruise the streets, equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters |
drug of abuse street drug | a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects), drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction |
local road local street | a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it |
main street high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
New York Stock Exchange N. Y. Stock Exchange NYSE big board | a stock exchange in New York |
officer's mess | a mess for the exclusive use of officers |
one-way street | a street on which vehicular traffic is allowed to move in only one direction |
police boat | a boat used by harbor police |
police station police headquarters station house | a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district, serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought |
police van police wagon paddy wagon patrol wagon wagon black Maria | van used by police to transport prisoners |
side street | a street intersecting a main street and terminating there |
street | a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings, they walked the streets of the small town, he lives on Nassau Street |
street | the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks, the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel, be careful crossing the street |
street clothes | ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.) |
streetlight street lamp | a lamp supported on a lamppost, for illuminating a street |
two-way street | a street on which vehicular traffic can move in either of two directions, you have to look both ways crossing a two-way street |
street credibility street cred cred | credibility among young fashionable urban individuals |
street smarts | a shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment |
one-way street | unilateral interaction, cooperation cannot be a one-way street |
Fleet Street | British journalism |
street name | the name of a street |
street name | the name of a brokerage firm in which stock is held on behalf of a customer, all my stocks are held in street name |
street name | slang for something (especially for an illegal drug), `smack' is a street name for heroin |
street name | an alternative name that a person chooses or is given (especially in inner city neighborhoods), her street name is Bonbon |
blotter day book police blotter rap sheet charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
advice and consent | a legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making |
advice | a proposal for an appropriate course of action |
admonition monition warning word of advice | cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness), a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality, the warning was to beware of surprises, his final word of advice was not to play with matches |
street sign | a sign visible from the street |
strip steak New York strip | steak from upper part of the short loin |
Downing Street | the British government |
Wall Street the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
police squad squad | a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime |
police department | the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime |
York House of York | the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from to , its emblem was a white rose |
police police force constabulary law | the force of policemen and officers, the law came looking for him |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP Mounties | the federal police force of Canada |
military police MP | a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners |
secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
street | people living or working on the same street, the whole street protested the absence of street lights |