(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
(2) 3.51pm GMT 116 min: John Motson says that Bobby Robson told him this afternoon that the five penalty takers, if needed, would be Lineker, Beardsley, Gascoigne, Pearce and Platt.
(3) Two days later, Bobby Hutton, a 17- year-old member of the Black Panthers, was killed in a shoot-out with police in Oakland, California.
(4) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(5) Bobby said he was going to call his band the Powerhouse of Oz.
(6) He is like a Sir Bobby Charlton and Denis Law who I remember watching – the whole club here is a legend.” Martino was certainly correct when he said during the build up – probably to the consternation of the promoter – that there was no way the match would have any bearing on this year’s Ballon d’Or.
(7) Sir Bobby Charlton, who is now a United director, will not have his record haul of 49 England goals taken from him just yet.
(8) According to Titz, Charlie approached him at his studio when he was photographing artist Bobby West Tjupurrula and said, “hey mate, can you take my photo?” “He was travelling with a band of people from Kiwirrkurra,” Titz says.
(9) His refusal to endorse evolution hardly distinguishes him from the other Republican presidential hopefuls, but Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal can point to an unmatched achievement as he formally kicks off his campaign: signing a law that paved the way for creationism to be taught in schools.
(10) Bobby Zamora, who scored off the bench in his last two appearances was thrown on in search of a winner, but to no avail for the Championship leaders.
(11) Wayne Rooney breaks Bobby Charlton's England goalscoring record Read more Yet this win was a tale of two strikers.
(12) Ferdinand has played well but the comparisons with 'the late, great' Bobby Moore are premature.
(13) In the White House, a bet-hedging President John Kennedy and his attorney general brother Bobby, rightly fearing the loss of Dixiecrat votes in the '64 presidential election, pleaded with King and the organizers to delay, postpone or tone down the event.
(14) Replying for the Republicans, Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor and a rising star of the party, opposed Obama's spending plans, saying it would leave future generations in debt, and advocated cutting taxes.
(15) Gifs created by Topher Price, Bobby Finger, Lacey Micallef and Mr Gif
(16) The single most depressing thing one could say about a baseball franchise, of course, would be that they hired Bobby Valentine as their new manager, which is just what the Red Sox said after the worst September collapse in their history.
(17) On Monday, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, one of 17 Republican candidates and four sitting governors , ended a state contract for Medicaid funding to the group on Monday, saying Planned Parenthood showed a “ fundamental disrespect for human life ”.
(18) They duly served their purpose in crippling trade unionism, above all during the 1984-85 miners' strike, the British bobby's unfinest hour.
(19) They offer what Bobby Kennedy referred to as “those things that make life worthwhile”, of which money, GDP, and claims of economic recovery take no account.
(20) The players’ union official, Bobby Barnes, has reminded Sterling of his responsibilities as a role model but said the controversy was merely “a minor blip” and the Liverpool player should be treated with understanding.
Booby
Definition:
(n.) A dunce; a stupid fellow.
(n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
(n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
(a.) Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
(2) Friday night's attack came just hours a after police discovered a booby trap bomb device underneath a car also in west Belfast.
(3) She said she refuses to let anyone inside the room, and sweeps it for cameras and “booby traps.” She said she is taunted daily about the videos, which are still online.
(4) But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept known as “active defence”.
(5) Observations in 1969 and 1970 implicated the monkeys in a drastic decline of the nesting populations of brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) and red-footed boobies (Sula sula).
(6) Holmes, still clad in body armour, told police he had booby-trapped his apartment.
(7) So I invited my friends to my "Bye Bye Boobies" Party.
(8) Alan Boobis said: “My role in ILSI (and two of its branches) is as a public sector member and chair of their boards of trustees, positions which are not remunerated.
(9) The recent proliferation of articles linking fetal scalp or cord blood evidence of metabolic acidosis to birth asphyxia threatens to create another legal booby trap.
(10) There are several beaches near busy Padstow, including wide golden Booby's Bay – sure to make kids giggle, and a hit with advanced surfers.
(11) A succession of police and federal agents testified that Holmes spent weeks amassing guns and ammunition, concocted explosives to booby-trap his apartment, scouted the movie theatre before the attack and took a series of chilling photographs .
(12) The witnesses said that in late June he began equipping himself with a helmet, gas mask and body armour; and in July he began buying fuses, gunpowder, chemicals and electronics to booby-trap his apartment in the hope of triggering an explosion and fire to divert police from the theatre.
(13) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
(14) It's not an insurance policy, it is a potential booby trap," he said.
(15) These disgruntled republicans were responsible for murdering the Catholic PSNI constable Ronan Kerr with an under-car booby trap in April 2011.
(16) The walls and entrances were also booby-trapped, and two large plastic containers were put in the middle of the floor.
(17) An advisory position held by Boobis at Efsa was discontinued in 2012.
(18) We have seen letter bombs, under-car booby traps, blast bombs, hijackings.
(19) Thus, expression of this DNA construct generates a pool of CD4+ booby-trapped cells that, as a population, are resistant to HIV infection.
(20) It took several hours, and a bomb-disposal robot that checked Sonboly’s body for booby-trap explosives, to confirm that in fact there was only one attacker, and he had committed suicide early on in the evening.