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Bow Street Runners

Bow Street Runners is the plural 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.

Questions about Bow Street Runners

What is Bow Street Runners the plural of?
Bow Street Runners is the plural of Bow Street Runner.

Words near Bow Street Runners in the dictionary

  1. bow springs
  2. Bow St. Runner
  3. Bow St. Runners
  4. Bow Street
  5. Bow Street Runner
  6. Bow Street Runners
  7. bow stroke
  8. bow thruster
  9. bow thrusters
  10. bow tie
  11. bow ties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bow Street Runners (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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