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Noun: polis  pó-lis
  1. A city, or a city-state in ancient Greece
     
  2. [UK, dialect] (informal) the police
    - fuzz, the fuzz, boys in blue, Bill [Brit], Old Bill [Brit]

Type of: constabulary, law, police, police force

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