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hot pencils

hot pencils is the plural of hot pencil.

Meaning of hot pencil

Noun

hot pencil (plural hot pencils)

  1. (slang) A police officer who writes a high volume of traffic tickets.
    • He was a hot pencil who kept CHP brass happy by writing more tickets than anybody. Secretly, he was using his highly polished Badge 861 1 to stalk young women for weird, sexually tinged power games.2004, San Diego Magazine, page 60

Questions about hot pencils

What is hot pencils the plural of?
Hot pencils is the plural of hot pencil.

Words near hot pencils in the dictionary

  1. hot patch
  2. hot patched
  3. hot patches
  4. hot patching
  5. hot pencil
  6. hot pencils
  7. hot pepper
  8. hot peppers
  9. hot pie
  10. hot pies
  11. hot pink

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