labdick
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Lothian and Borders Police + dick.
Noun edit
labdick (plural labdicks)
- (dialect, Edinburgh) policeman
- 1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, page 333:
- Begbie, realising that they are well on their way and have not been intercepted by the Lothian and Borders Constabulary, the labdicks, is more relaxed.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)