Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | Bobby | |
| meaning 1 | diminutive of Robert | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (Britain) police officer | |
| reference | Harper's Etymonline | |
| comment | From the given name of Sir Robert Peel, who established London’s police force | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | Bill | |
| lexeme 2 | Old Bill | |
| meaning 1 | given name | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (British, slang) police officer | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | Dibble | |
| lexeme 2 | dibble | |
| meaning 1 | family name | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (slang, British, originally Manchester) police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police | Remember this story about police hunting a metal detector enthusiast suspected of digging 20 holes in a school playing field in Cornwall? It’s taken a rather unusual twist. Pop superstar Robbie Williams appears to have ’fessed up to the crime. The former Take That star, who is a keen metal detecting enthusiast, retweeted the West Briton newspaper’s version of the story, telling ‘Dibble’ – a Mancunian slang term for the police which comes from the character Officer Dibble in the cartoon Top Cat – to ‘do one’, vowing the police will never catch him alive. 2016 May 12, “maxc73”, “Robbie Williams ‘confesses’ to digging holes in school’s playing field”, in The Herald, Plymouth, Devon http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/robbie-williams-confesses-digging-holes-school-s/story-29265330-detail/story.html |
| reference | OED English Wiktionary | |
| comment | Preceded by the 'the police': Watch out, lads! Here comes the dibble! |
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