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Bow St. Runner

Bow St. Runner is the alternative form of Bow Street Runner.

Meaning of Bow Street Runner

Noun

Bow Street Runner (plural Bow Street Runners)

  1. (colloquial, historical) A member of an early police force founded in 1742 in London, England.

Forms of Bow St. Runner

pluralBow St. Runners

Questions about Bow St. Runner

What is Bow St. Runner the alternative form of?
Bow St. Runner is the alternative form of Bow Street Runner.

Words near Bow St. Runner in the dictionary

  1. bow saws
  2. bow shock
  3. bow shocks
  4. bow spring
  5. bow springs
  6. Bow St. Runner
  7. Bow St. Runners
  8. Bow Street
  9. Bow Street Runner
  10. Bow Street Runners
  11. bow stroke

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bow St. Runner (page history and authors); Bow Street Runner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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