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mutton shunter en · NOUN
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(archaic, slang) Police constable.
"Vigilant?" asked the dock tramp, “and what will the mutton shunters be doing whilst we are remaining vigilant?”
2016, George Mann -, Associates of Sherlock Holmes:Mutton shunters won't even go in there.
2016, Matthew J. Kirby, A Taste for Monsters:“We know about the favours you asked of her and now she is dead. We are working with the police” “Mutton shunters! Gah!” he spat once again and, as if disgusted by the words themselves, threw the cigar away.
2018, James Moffett, An Element of Deceit: A Sherlock Holmes Case:
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