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re: Did anybody else call police "coppers" when the were young instead of "Cops"
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:12 am to sidewalkside
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:12 am to sidewalkside
only when I twirl my mustache as I'm getting away with a burlap sack with a dollar sign on it
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:14 am to sidewalkside
Coppers, Fuzz, Pigs, Flatfoot, Gumshoe,....
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:15 am to sidewalkside
"You'll never catch me, coppers!"
I remember saying stuff like this back when I was a kid when we would play cops and robbers. I don't have a clue where we got it from. Perhaps it came from an old movie. No idea.
I remember saying stuff like this back when I was a kid when we would play cops and robbers. I don't have a clue where we got it from. Perhaps it came from an old movie. No idea.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:16 am to QJenk
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don't have a clue where we got it from
quote:
it came from an old movie.
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This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 10:22 am
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:18 am to sidewalkside
I was raised to say police or policeman. Cop was a derogatory term at the time. It bothers me when journalists refer to police as cops.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:21 am to sidewalkside
we called them the fuzz
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:28 am to sidewalkside
Edward G Robinson did.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:29 am to sidewalkside
quote:I didn't but James Cagney did...
Did anybody else call police "coppers"
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:30 am to UptownJoeBrown
is that the "look at me, ma! I'm on top of the world!!" flick? 
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:39 am to sidewalkside
"The Fuzz"
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:41 am to sidewalkside
Only those of us who grew up in James Cagney films.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:42 am to Deplorableinohio
quote:
Cop was a derogatory term at the time.
it was when I was a kid but cops refer to themselves, and call each other cops these days, no one's offended
no
one's
offended
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:43 am to CocomoLSU
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:51 am to sidewalkside
No
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:52 am to sidewalkside
No
Because i wasn’t raised in New York or New Jersey in the 1920s
Because i wasn’t raised in New York or New Jersey in the 1920s
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:05 am to sidewalkside
No because I wasn’t a gangster in prohibition era Chicago.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:55 am to Adajax
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Coppers, Fuzz, Pigs, Flatfoot, Gumshoe,....
Smokey, Johnny Law, Authorities, Po-Po, boys in blue….
Posted on 10/21/25 at 12:01 pm to JEC119
Even when my daughter was around 3-4, she knew that when my detector alerted on Ka band, she'd say, "Careful Papi, it's the popo!"
Posted on 10/21/25 at 12:27 pm to DesertFox
quote:
Know what an old penny is made of?
Dirty Copper
True...while new pennies are copper plated zinc.
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