Peeler

peeler English Noun en Ireland slang en peeler (policeman). en 1839 The manor of Glenmore; or, The Irish peasant, by a member of the Irish bar Dennis Burrowes Kelly The rest, on the contrary, the rather congratulated themselves on having parted with such suspicious company; -- and the little tailor had scarcely time to enunciate his advice, "to be chatting and walking on, as if they weren't thinking of or minding them at all," — when the sergeant of the party coolly took his little self by the collar, while the remaining Peelers, surrounding the others, made them severally captives. en 1840 The life and adventures of Valentine Vox, the ventriloquist Henry Cockton 159 It at once became abundantly manifest, that those six Peelers had arrived with some object in view; and before the Sovereign People had time even to guess what that object might be, one of the Peelers very coolly depreived the horse of his nose-bag; another just as coolly returned the bit to his mouth; and a third, with equal coolness, go hold of the reins, when a fourth, who was certainly not quite so cool, did, by virtue of the application of a short round truncheon, persuade the passive animal to move on. en 2008 Remember It's for Ireland: A Family Memoir of Tomas Maccurtain Fionnuala Maccurtain 185635573X The Peelers in their searches were always threatening, abusive, bad mannered and even threatened to shoot the women and were very disrespectful. Proper noun s en. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Peeler is the 5901st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5848 individuals. Peeler is most common among White (79.87%) and Black/African American (16.09%) individuals. Anagrams en eeelpr Leeper repeel