Last Updated ：2025/11/20

dibble

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

Britain countable slang uncountable

(slang, Britain, originally Manchester, countable) A police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police.

Japanese Meaning

(スラング) 警察官、特にグレーター・マンチェスター警察に所属する警官を指す

What is this buttons?

A dibble from Greater Manchester Police stepped in to calm the crowd outside the football match.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

グレーター・マンチェスター警察の警官が、サッカーの試合の外で群衆を落ち着かせるために介入した。

Details

Sense（1）

(slang, Britain, originally Manchester, countable) A police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police.

Remember this story about police hunting a metal detector enthusiast suspected of digging 20 holes in a school playing field in Cornwall? It’s taken a rather unusual twist. Pop superstar Robbie Williams appears to have ’fessed up to the crime. The former Take That star, who is a keen metal detecting enthusiast, retweeted the West Briton newspaper’s version of the story, telling ‘Dibble’ – a Mancunian slang term for the police which comes from the character Officer Dibble in the cartoon Top Cat – to ‘do one’, vowing the police will never catch him alive.

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