rozzer

I thought you were supposed to be the best rozzer in the force!

Dinner's been moved up, at the request of his Rozzer.

Wouldn't do if they got hold of you, Rozzer.

"Better have a look at this, Rozzer," he said.

"Rozzer," the man at the door said, "you can't do that.

You talk all posh-like, an' dress like a rozzer.

But in the first episode the combination was uncomfortable, moving from one foot to the other like a rozzer with corns.

'That thing you're holding is a heavy crime, Rozzer.

A rozzer showed me this afore.

"Out of line, I was, Rozzer," Blackwell said, breaking it.

"E went for the rozzer."

"E's a rozzer," Nellie said incredulously, looking at Monk with intense dislike.

Look at my rozzer."

"Cos 'er geezer's a thief, professional like, an' she'll never tell a rozzer the truth, on principle."

If I was the chief rozzer on this case, I'd have some questions to put to Theo, I can tell you!'

"I'm not a, a rozzer, girl."

'If that rozzer sees Chopper 'e's gonna twig somefing's up.

'They must 'ave seen the rozzer.'

"Ease up, Rozzer.

"Okay, Rozzer," he said, turning to Rez.

Lugg, in The Fashion in Shrouds, is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide".

As Croker walks through the garage where the Minis are being prepared, we hear that "Rozzer's having trouble with his differential" and the back of the red Mini Cooper is jacked up and Rozzer is working.

"It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide" was a non sequitur-ish phrase that found its way into Mad on several occasions in the 1950s; this was dated British slang meaning "it is foolhardy to bribe a policeman with counterfeit money."