rent-a-cop

Examples

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• Your rent-a-cops are a tad under trained.

  Sneakers (1992)

• Look, this hairy, drunk rent-a-cop confused "go away" for "hit on me."

  Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)

• These rent-a-cops are such a drag.

  Armed and Dangerous (1986)

• The one rent-a-cop at the gate will be long gone along with the other cops.

  Blog text (18)

• The estate has its own little village, complete with a chapel, library, and many, many rent-a-cops.

  Fiction book (1994)

• We hired rent-a-cops, changed my phone number, and checked all mail for explosives.

  Fiction book (1997)

• All I can do now is watch TV and hope the rent-a-cops keep the loonies out.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Now, some rent-a-cops have licenses to carry weapons, while others do not.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I'm talking something so low-profile, a rent-a-cop watches the place.

  The Lazarus Project (2008)

• A rent-a-cop intercepts us and points a heavy steel flashlight at my chest like a gun.

  Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

S

security guard

vsrent-a-cop

210 1.3

A person who watches and protects a building or people to stop stealing and trouble

is informal and derogatory, suggesting low authority and low competence

How Authoritative

police officer

560 1.1

security guard

210 1.3

doorman

106 1.2

rent-a-cop

• Offensive

9 8.9

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