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good-cop bad-cop en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of good cop bad cop.
His personnel file, an inch thick with commendations, recounts hunches he played, good-cop bad-cop routines, shoot-outs with Glocks and Berettas.
2010, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 12:JENKINS AND LUCAS played good-cop bad-cop for a while, Jenkins suggesting that Honey Bee had helped some, and she might help more, and so deserved another chance. Lucas wanted to put her in jail.
2010, John Sandford, Storm Prey, Penguin, →ISBN:Just think, if we run into bad guys, there’s two of us, and we can play good-cop bad-cop.
2000, John Shannon, The Poison Sky, Berkley, →ISBN:Together they can play good-cop bad-cop, while Cubans wait for word on their nation’s future.
2007, Information Services Latin America:They spent about an hour playing good-cop bad-cop and making a dent in my supply of dark French Roast from The Castro Bean (Tango 87).
2000, Meredith Ahner Wood, Re/sisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Novels: