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Definition of cops and robbers in US English: cops and robbersplural noun 1A children's game of hiding and chasing, in which the participants pretend to be police and criminals. Example sentencesExamples - On the third tour, he turned old women into Indian maidens and old men into players of cops and robbers.
- Using whatever farm tools came to hand inventing a boy's game of cops and robbers and knights in sturdy farm armour, the mask was to fight all the natural foes, bush fire, drought, loneliness.
- Play games your elementary school child loves, like tag, cops and robbers, Simon says and red light, green light.
- They play cops and robbers for real.
- Aaron told me that they used the hut to play cops and robbers when they were little, but that they now used it to hang out in at night.
- In cops and robbers, kids are roleplaying ‘good versus evil’.
- He would listen to me, and the kids started a game of cops and robbers, unbeknownst to us, of course.
- Kids would play cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians.
- Go back and play cops and robbers where they're still scared of you.
- When I was a wee tyke we played cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians.
- They would play hide-n-seek, cops and robbers, play in Anna Maria's little pool, race on their bikes, pretend they were soldiers in a war, or pretend they were pirates, the possibilities were endless.
- He's definitely the Barney we know and love: full of himself yet easily flummoxed, quick to overreact, with both a child's delight and an adult's swaggering pride in getting to play cops and robbers for a living.
- And you were masked and dressed in black because you like to play cops and robbers?
- In this climate a child was expelled for playing cops and robbers with a paper gun, and another for waving a biscuit at a teacher.
- It was a harmless afternoon, and I was lounging around inside class, waiting impatiently for the bell to ring, so I could run out to meet my friends at the playground and play cops and robbers.
- The principal of a Colorado elementary school can no longer quiz students who play cops and robbers about their families' firearms.
- I feel like sometimes they think it's a game, like they're playing cops and robbers and they're spies.
- Four kindergartners at Wilson Elementary School in Sayreville, N.J., were suspended for three days for playing a make-believe game of cops and robbers during recess, using their fingers as guns.
- Kids' games have always involved shooting, for the most part: cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians.
- No, I mean like when we'd play pirates or cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians or whatever.
- 1.1 A simplistic polarization of the conflict between criminals and police, seen virtually as a game; a lifestyle centered around this.
to him this could be a lark, a bit of cops and robbers Example sentencesExamples - Unless, of course, improving sales weakens your hand in demanding ever stricter copyright rules and legitimises your playing cops and robbers.
- Fighting terror was judged, at the top, to be a dangerous form of cops and robbers, not a nuanced, intricate war.
- Two would-be thieves were led away in handcuffs Tuesday after taking police on a dangerous real-life game of cops and robbers - one that involved car jackings, a high-speed chase, a couple of collisions and armed robbery.
- The national movement would then be understood like a story of cops and robbers, of great leaders and great villains.
- Yet there she was in that bank, playing cops and robbers.
Definition of cops and robbers in US English: cops and robbersplural noun 1A children's game of hiding and chasing, in which the participants pretend to be police and criminals. Example sentencesExamples - In this climate a child was expelled for playing cops and robbers with a paper gun, and another for waving a biscuit at a teacher.
- He would listen to me, and the kids started a game of cops and robbers, unbeknownst to us, of course.
- In cops and robbers, kids are roleplaying ‘good versus evil’.
- Four kindergartners at Wilson Elementary School in Sayreville, N.J., were suspended for three days for playing a make-believe game of cops and robbers during recess, using their fingers as guns.
- The principal of a Colorado elementary school can no longer quiz students who play cops and robbers about their families' firearms.
- He's definitely the Barney we know and love: full of himself yet easily flummoxed, quick to overreact, with both a child's delight and an adult's swaggering pride in getting to play cops and robbers for a living.
- Aaron told me that they used the hut to play cops and robbers when they were little, but that they now used it to hang out in at night.
- Using whatever farm tools came to hand inventing a boy's game of cops and robbers and knights in sturdy farm armour, the mask was to fight all the natural foes, bush fire, drought, loneliness.
- No, I mean like when we'd play pirates or cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians or whatever.
- When I was a wee tyke we played cops and robbers and cowboys and Indians.
- They play cops and robbers for real.
- Kids would play cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians.
- Kids' games have always involved shooting, for the most part: cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians.
- It was a harmless afternoon, and I was lounging around inside class, waiting impatiently for the bell to ring, so I could run out to meet my friends at the playground and play cops and robbers.
- On the third tour, he turned old women into Indian maidens and old men into players of cops and robbers.
- I feel like sometimes they think it's a game, like they're playing cops and robbers and they're spies.
- Go back and play cops and robbers where they're still scared of you.
- Play games your elementary school child loves, like tag, cops and robbers, Simon says and red light, green light.
- They would play hide-n-seek, cops and robbers, play in Anna Maria's little pool, race on their bikes, pretend they were soldiers in a war, or pretend they were pirates, the possibilities were endless.
- And you were masked and dressed in black because you like to play cops and robbers?
- 1.1 A simplistic polarization of the conflict between criminals and police, seen virtually as a game; a lifestyle centered around this.
to him this could be a lark, a bit of cops and robbers Example sentencesExamples - Unless, of course, improving sales weakens your hand in demanding ever stricter copyright rules and legitimises your playing cops and robbers.
- Yet there she was in that bank, playing cops and robbers.
- Fighting terror was judged, at the top, to be a dangerous form of cops and robbers, not a nuanced, intricate war.
- Two would-be thieves were led away in handcuffs Tuesday after taking police on a dangerous real-life game of cops and robbers - one that involved car jackings, a high-speed chase, a couple of collisions and armed robbery.
- The national movement would then be understood like a story of cops and robbers, of great leaders and great villains.
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