Bulkies

bulkies English Etymology Perhaps from their bulky figures. Noun p en Ireland slang obsolete The police. en 1891 Irish Builder and Engineer 33 122 the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the "Bulkies." en 2023 Sean Farrell Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast 253 In his study of the Belfast Town Police (nicknamed "the Bulkies"), Brian Griffin has argued that the force's sectarian reputation was more a matter of appearance than behavior. References en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42108/42108-h/42108-h.htm#:~:text=Bulky