where did the word "fuzz" originate from in referring to the police?
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"It is unrelated to Fuzzy Wuzzy the poetic bear.\nBear, meaning cop, appears in 1975 and is a reference to the "Smokey the Bear" hats that state troopers often wear."
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i agree with the last answer \nF*CK THE POLICE
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This mainly British colloquial expression is recorded only from the 1960s, but is certainly older. Its origin is uncertain. Some argue it may be from cods, an old term for the testicles that derives from the Anglo-Saxon sense of cod, a bag. It is also suggested that wallop may be connected with the dialect term meaning to chatter or scold (not with the word meaning a heavy blow).\nOne explanation has it that it refers to the late Hiram Codd, who—despite his archetypally American first name—was British, born in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in 1838. He spent his life working in the soft drinks business. In the 1870s, he designed and patented a method of sealing a glass bottle by means of a ball in its neck, which the pressure of the gas in the fizzy drink forced against a rubber washer. Making the bottle was a technical challenge, since the ball necessarily had to be larger than the diameter of the neck. It was only in 1876, when he teamed up with a Yorkshire glass blower named Ben Rylands, that the answer was found. The Codd bottle was an immediate success; surviving examples are now highly collectable. You opened them by pushing the ball into the neck, and openers in the shape of short, thin cylinders were supplied for the purpose. One unexpected problem was that children smashed the bottles to use the glass balls as marbles.\nThe suggestion is that drinkers who preferred their tipple to have alcohol in it were dismissive of Mr Codd’s soft drinks. As beer was often called wallop, they referred sneeringly to the fizzy drink as Codd’s wallop, and the resulting word later spread its meaning to refer to anything considered to be rubbish.\nThis story reeks of the approach to word history called folk etymology. As one writer has put it, it seems rather too neat an explanation to be true. But nobody’s come up with anything better.
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"A Scarborough Warning is to let something go by the run and without seeing that everyone was clear, i.e., with no warning at all. The expression is of very ancient origin, as is also Jedburgh Justice , which in the old moss trooping days meant to hang first and try the case afterwards."\n\n"The expression "Jeddart justice" or "Jethart Justice", where a man was hanged first, and tried afterward (compare Lynch law), seems to have arisen from one case of summary execution of a gang of villains."\n\n"give her what we call in uk the scarbrough warning!tell her how youfeel,how shes treating you..are a human or a door mat,because shes wiping her feet all over you...just imagine the conversation shes having when she talks to her female mates...all about you..yor a wimp..soft touch... \nweak as p*ss...and so on...so tell her thats it enoughs enough!!if she doesnt stop shes out of your life forgood..let her go she deserves a bloke who can fight back...(not into female violance)but a good crack wouldnt go a miss...best wishes"
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Back in the days of Al Capone. They referred to the badges the policemen wore. Bad guys called them copper. Thus the police were coppers.
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British racial term originating in the colonial period of the British Empire. It was generally used as a label for the natives of India, North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1950s it had become a pejorative term used in order to offend.\n\nThe origins of the term are unclear. Most dictionaries say "wog" either possibly or likely derives from the generic term golliwog after the Golliwogg, a "grotesque" blackface minstrel doll-character from a children's book published in 1895. Various facetious explanations include the claim that it originated from acronyms for "Westernized/Worthy/Wily Oriental Gentleman" or variants thereof, or for "Workers of Government" or "Wards of Government", used to refer to early immigrants into the United Kingdom. Such attempts to explain the word's origin are apocryphal at best.
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"Who chose cake?"\n\nIt's exact etymology is unclear but this much is certain: the British coined the phrase. \n\n"The first documented appearance of the term is in 1943, in an small book of British military slang, although sources claim it was used in the RAF throughout World War Two, and was originally a Yorkshire dialect term in use at least since 1914."
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This would ordinarily be referred to material evidence.  When the police want something, and they discover it, then they seize it as evidence of a suspected crime.
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In the US it's gotta be New Orleans.  Worldwide, I would guess any communist country.  I see some people put Mexican cops.  I was once in Mexico with my wife and was talking with to Mexican cops.  Later, as we walked past their post again, one of the cops recognized me and asked me if I wanted to buy his police ball cap for five bucks.  I declined.  My wife said that they probably needed the money.  I didn't doubt that, but I told her it would be my luck that if I bought the cap I would probably be arrested for stealing it and then I would end up in a Mexican jail.  The cop would be five bucks richer, get his cap back and I'd have to pay a hefty fine.
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Because cops are racist.
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It means stay out of my life. Can't remember the origin, probably the 80's.
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British police force.  See http://www.jgkeegan.com/papers/paper3.html.  Also http://www.knowledgeoflondon.com/bobby.html
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It comes from the early 1800s in London.  The term "pig" for a contemptable person was around a long time before that.  Particularly, the name refers to a certain group of Police called the Bow Street Runners that criminals referred to as China Street Pigs.
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It's spelled FUBAR. It means Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. Some choose to use the "F" word instead of fouled. It originated in WW2. Also standard was the saying SNAFU Situation Normal All Fouled Up. Again Fouled can be replaced with the swear word.
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I know the orgin of one cuss word, in the old days when they would catch couples outside they would get tickets for-fornicating unlawful carnel knowledge. It eventualy got shortened.
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That is a tough one.. There are sought to be made explanations but.. sifting through all of them, I believe it is: Around the year 1700, the slang verb cop entered English usage, meaning "to get ahold of, catch, capture." By 1844, cop showed up in print, and soon thereafter the -er suffix was added, and a policeman became a copper, one who cops or catches and arrests criminals. Copper first appeared in print in 1846, the use of cop as a short form copper occured in 1859
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Paddy is slang for the policemen or bobbies as they are more popularly known, and whack, well, that still means exactly what it did then. So, I'm thinking a whack from a policeman.