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bulkies

bulkies is the plural of bulkie.

Noun capitalized: Bulkies

Bulkies pl (plural only)

  1. (Ireland, obsolete, plural, plural-only, slang) The police.
    • […] the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the "Bulkies."1891, Irish Builder and Engineer, volume 33, page 122
    • 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.2023, Sean Farrell, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, page 253

Origin of bulkies

Perhaps from their bulky figures.

Questions about bulkies

What does bulkies mean?
Bulkies means the police.
What is bulkies the plural of?
Bulkies is the plural of bulkie.
What part of speech is bulkies?
Bulkies is a noun.

Words near bulkies in the dictionary

  1. bulkheads
  2. bulkie
  3. bulkie roll
  4. bulkie rolls
  5. bulkier
  6. bulkies
  7. bulkiest
  8. bulkily
  9. bulkiness
  10. bulkinesses
  11. bulking

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