badge bunny
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Etymology edit
- badge (“an item worn and displayed by police officers”) + bunny.
- Bunny is used in combination to refer to female groupies.
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badge bunny (plural badge bunnies)
- (US, idiomatic) A woman who is romantically attracted to police officers and who seeks out their companionship.
- 2000, “Third Watch: The Tys That Bind”, in TV.com, retrieved 19 Feb. 2009:
- "She could be . . . a cop groupie or a badge bunny, one of those kind of people."
- 2006 July 7, Tim Dees, “Coping with that Primal Urge”, in Officer.com, retrieved 19 Feb. 2009:
- And cops seem to have their share of followers, too. The most common term for these women is "badge bunny."
- 2008 November 19, “TV Listings: Wednesday's Highlights”, in Los Angeles Times:
- Crews and Reese (Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi) discover the dead teacher was a woman who exclusively dated cops—a "badge bunny" (9 pm NBC).
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