peelers

Noun (1)

peeler (plural peelers)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) A police officer.
   • A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;
     He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.
     And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun—
     'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark

   Synonyms:

   police officer

Noun (2)

peeler (plural peelers)

1. One who peels.
   • According to another superstition, the longer the peel, the longer the peeler's life would be.2014, Karen Jean Matsko Hood, Halloween Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Halloween Recipes, →ISBN
   1. A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
      • She and I took a few minutes together once the belts began rolling with red tomatoes and with the shiny cans which clanked their hollow wind-chime twang as they paraded down the chute on the way to their own conveyor belts which ran parallel to the wide ones the tomatoes rode on. In order to get...2001, Marisa De Franceschi, Family Matters, →ISBN, page 26
   2. A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.
      • From about this time, it became customary to permit the peelers to appear annually before the government, immediately after the termination of the cinnamon-harvest.1833, Asiatic Journal, page 272
   3. (derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.
   4. (obsolete) One who peels or pillages.

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