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rentacop

rentacop is the alternative form of rent-a-cop.

Meaning of rent-a-cop

Noun

rent-a-cop (plural rent-a-cops)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) A private security guard, usually one regarded as inferior to and less skilled than an actual law enforcement officer.
    • “What got into you tonight? Why'd you pull that scene at the arcade? I had to mess up this rentacop^([sic]) came after me with nunchucks.”1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 24

Questions about rentacop

What is rentacop the alternative form of?
Rentacop is the alternative form of rent-a-cop.

Words near rentacop in the dictionary

  1. rent-to-own
  2. Renta
  3. rentabilities
  4. rentability
  5. rentable
  6. rentacop
  7. rentage
  8. rentages
  9. rentagub
  10. rentagubs
  11. rentaka

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rentacop (page history and authors); rent-a-cop (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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