Alsatian
noun
a large dog with thick brown and black fur, used for helping the police and for guarding buildings
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noun
a large dog with thick brown and black fur, used for helping the police and for guarding buildings
noun
special clothes that soldiers and police officers wear to protect themselves against bullets in extremely dangerous situations
a British spelling of breathalyzer
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a piece of equipment used by the police for checking how much alcohol a driver has drunk. The driver blows into a special bag that measures the amount of alcohol in their breath.
noun
a symbol in the shape of an upside-down ‘V’ that soldiers, police officers etc wear on their sleeve to show their rank
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a gas used by the police for controlling crowds of people. It hurts your eyes and makes it difficult for you to breathe.
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a type of dog kept as a pet, for guarding buildings, or sometimes trained to be a police dog. Dobermanns are large and thin with black or dark brown hair.
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a heavy jacket with a metal layer inside that soldiers and police officers wear for protection against bullets
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metal rings that a police officer puts round a prisoner’s wrists to stop them from using their hands or arms
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a piece of equipment used by police officers that uses laser light to find out how fast a vehicle is travelling
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a liquid substance that causes severe pain when it touches the eyes, and is sometimes used by the police in the US
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ordinary clothes that police wear instead of a uniform in order to do their job without being recognized
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a jacket without sleeves that is made from a material that cannot easily be cut and that is worn by police in order to protect them from knife attacks to the upper body
a weapon that produces a strong electric current and that is used by police in some countries to stop people being violent or stop them from running away
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a small weapon that soldiers or police throw at someone in order to prevent them from moving, without killing them
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a gas that makes your eyes sting, used especially by the police to control violent crowds
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the system by which special equipment is able to record the heat that people or buildings produce, used especially by the police and the armed forces
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a document written by a judge that gives the police permission to do something, for example to arrest someone or to search a house
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a piece of equipment that shoots water at people, used by the police for controlling crowds
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an object that is put on one of the wheels of a car to prevent the driver moving it. Wheel clamps are used by the police and by private companies to stop drivers parking illegally.
adjective
a romantic relationship between two members of the cast of a play, film or television series
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