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   What does pig mean in slang?

   • The term was used as the title of the 2014 British police drama Babylon. See Pig. Derogatory; derived from the term "Pig/Pigs"; can refer to a single officer or the police generally. Polish slang term for police officer, that is: baguette and it is reference to police baton

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   Why is it called a pig?

   • The word is now almost exclusively applied by London thieves to a plain-clothes man, or a ‘nose.’” Still, it’s a bit ambiguous why the term pig was coined in connection to police, but perhaps it was an allusion to early officers and detectives who were sniffing out crime, like a pig sniffs with its snout.

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   Why are pigs called police officers?

   • The term pigs, in reference to police officers, comes from England’s underground criminal slang and shows up in the early 1800s. It refers to pigs as vile creatures that take more than their share, akin to police officers who would take the illicit gains of thieves for themselves. This is part of a complete episode.

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   When did police use the word pig?

   • Flash forward a hundred years and the word pig saw a resurgence in use for police in the late 1960s. The term was used by protestors and event organizers during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and popularized in the media. A group calling themselves the “Yippies” protested outside the Chicago convention opposing the Vietnam War.

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   What does pig mean in Omaha?

   • The word “pig” has become synonymous with “police” in some circles. Its use in reference to police is highly polarizing with most police and their supporters calling the term derogatory and disrespectful. Until recently though, the term hasn’t had much use publically in Omaha.

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   What does pig mean in counterculture?

   • The term pig is a long-time metaphor used to deflate and insult any authority figure. Although it has a negative connotation for members of the establishment, the counterculture has long adopted the word pig as a battle cry against its perceived oppressors. The word “pig” has become synonymous with “police” in some circles.

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   Jul 2, 2021 · The term pig is a long-time metaphor used to deflate and insult any authority figure. Although it has a negative connotation for members of the establishment, the counterculture has long adopted the word pig as a battle cry against its perceived oppressors.

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   Mar 26, 2014 · It took about three more centuries, but this particular insult inevitably became a popular nickname for oft-insulted police officers, with the first documented reference to this being in the Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence, published in London in 1811.

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   Apr 17, 2024 · The term “pig” as a derogatory reference to police officers can be traced back to the 16th and 17th centuries in England. At that time, “pig” was used as an insult to describe any person that was widely disliked, not just law enforcement.

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   May 31, 2005 · Copper as slang for policeman is first found in print in 1846, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The most likely explanation is that it comes from the verb “to cop” meaning to seize, capture, or snatch, dating from just over a century earlier (1704).

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   gay slang for gay and bisexual males that are hypersexual and into the kinkier and seedier side of gay life.

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   Jan 30, 2015 · The term pigs, in reference to police officers, comes from England’s underground criminal slang and shows up in the early 1800s. It refers to pigs as vile creatures that take more than their share, akin to police officers who would take the illicit gains of thieves for themselves.

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   Hispanic derogatory slang for police (literally "pig"). Purken Norwegian slang for the police (literally "the sow").