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buddy cops

buddy cops is the plural of buddy cop.

Meaning of buddy cop

Noun

buddy cop (plural buddy cops)

  1. (attributive) A film and television genre with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process.
    • Buddy cop movies were raised to an art form in the eighties.2006, Howard Hughes, “Criminal Record: An Introduction to Crime Movies”, in Crime Wave: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Crime Movies, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page xxi
    1. (attributive) One of the two characters.
      • With a long pedigree of heroic duos that can be traced back to Holmes and Watson, the original buddy cops, this genre of films tends to be more focused on inter-character chemistry than it is on big explosions or drawn-out fistfights.2012, Katrina Hill, Action Movie Freak, Penguin, →ISBN

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Buddy cops is the plural of buddy cop.

Words near buddy cops in the dictionary

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