(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.
(1) Needing to win by two clear goals in the return leg, Ramsey picked Nobby Stiles and Norman Hunter and Peter Storey.
(2) A broadcasting natural, he started out as a teenager on Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio, where he played a character called Nobby Nolevel on the Timmy Mallett show.
(3) Nobby Stiles, Crerand’s team-mate, tells one story in his autobiography about being hit by a dart.
(4) Recently, trailblazers like Sissy Nobby and Big Dipper took the risks that made it easier for others to follow.
(5) "How can you change Nobby to Ned and yet leave Dick and Fanny?
(6) HubbleWatch Van Bommel couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter, Nobby Stiles, Andoni Goikoetxea and Claudio Gentile.
(7) Summerfield had heard Hodder would change the name of the circus boy, Nobby, in Five Go Off in a Caravan, to Ned, which struck him "as very strange".